m.Name of the district around agra- and mathurā- (the abode of nanda-, of kṛṣṇa-'s foster-father, and scene of kṛṣṇa-'s juvenile adventures;commonly called Braj; seevṛji-)
Denotes in the first instance, in the Rigveda, the place to which the cattle resort (from vraj, ‘go’), the ‘ feeding ground ’ to which the milk-giving animals go out in the morning from the village (Grāma), while the others stay in it all day and night. Secondarily it denotes the ‘herd’ itself. This is Geldner’s view, which seems clearly better than that of Roth who regards Vraja as primarily the ‘enclosure’ (from vrj), and only thence the ‘herd’ ; for the Vraja does not normally mean an ‘enclosure’ at all: the Vedic cattle were not stall-fed as a general rule. In some passages, however, ‘pen,’ in others ‘stall,’ is certainly meant. The word is often used in the myth of the robbing of the kine. It occasionally denotes a ‘cistern.’
noun (masculine) a fold (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
a herd (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cattle-shed (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cloud (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
cow-pen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
enclosure or station of herdsmen (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
flock (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
host (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
multitude (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a son of Havirdhāna (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of the district around Agra and Mathurā (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
stall (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
swarm (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
troop (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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