# पिप्पलाद (pippalāda)

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पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) is a Sanskrit word meaning eating the fruit of the Peepal tree, given to sensual pleasures, an ancient teacher of the Atharva Veda, his school, a sage, the name of a teacher mentioned in the Prashna Upanishad. Its 9 recorded definitions are grouped into 2 contexts, among them Pippalāda: The Sage, Teacher, and His School/Tradition, Etymological and Derived Meanings of Pippalāda.

- **SLP1:** `pippalAda`  **IAST:** pippalāda  **Devanagari:** पिप्पलाद
- **Wikipedia:** https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pippalada
- **Declensions:** 48 forms — https://sanskritlexicon.com/word/pippalada/declensions.md

## Meanings by context

### Pippalāda: The Sage, Teacher, and His School/Tradition (7 definitions)
- an ancient teacher of the Atharva Veda  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > पिप्पला (pippalā) द (da) m. N. of an ancient teacher of the AV.; PraśnUp.; MBh. &c. [ ID=124362 ]
- his school  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > पिप्पला (pippalā) द (da) m. pl. his school (also ° द (da) क (°daka) ) [ ID=124363 ]
- Name of an ancient teacher, and in the plural, his school.  
  *Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary*
  > पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) [Printed book page 316 ] पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) m. N. of an ancient teacher, pl. his school. [ ID=19207 ]
- a sage  
  *Index to the Names in the Mahabharata*
  > पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) [Printed book page 551-1 ] Pippalāda, a ṛṣi. § 637 (Rājadh.): XII, 47 η, 1596 (among the ṛṣis who surrounded Bhīṣma). [ ID=8368 ]
- A sage and pupil of Devadarshe.  
  *The Purana Index*
  > पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) [Printed book page 2-333 ] Pippalāda (I) — a pupil of Devadarśa; the sage who communicated the Aṅgāravratam to Yudhiṣṭhira, narrating an old samvāda between Śukra and Virocana; 2 came to see Parīkṣit practising Prāyopaveśa; knew the Yoga power of Viṣṇu. 3 [ Footnote: 1) Br. II. 35. 57; Vi. III. 6. 10.] [ Footnote: 2) M. 72. 1, 5-6, 45.] [ Footnote: 3) Bhā I. 19. 10; II. 7. 45:] [ ID=7919 ]
- a disciple of Vedasparsha  
  *The Purana Index*
  > Pippalāda (II) — a disciple of Vedasparśa. Vā. 61. 51. [ ID=7920 ]
- 1. The name of a teacher mentioned in the Prashna Upanishad. 2. A school of the Atharvaveda in the plural.  
  *The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects*
  > पिप्पलाद (pippalāda) [Printed book page 1-532 ] Pippalāda (‘eater of berries’) is the name of a teacher mentioned in the Praśna Upaniṣad. 1 In the plural the name denotes a school of the Atharvaveda. 2 Their (Paippalāda) recension of the text of the Saṃhitā has been reproduced in facsimile by Garbe and Bloomfield, 3 and in part published. 4 [ Footnote: 1) i. 1.] [ Footnote: 2) Weber, Indische Studien, 3, 277; Indian Literature, 153, 159, 160, 164.] [ Footnote: 3) Baltimore, 1901.] [ Footnote: 4) The variants of the Paippalāda are given in part in Whitney's Translation of the Atharvaveda, and the text of books i. and ii. has been edited by Barret in the Journal of the American Oriental Society, 26, 197-295; 30, 187 et seq. Cf. also Lanman in Whitney's Translation, lxxix et seq. ] [ ID=1830 ]

### Etymological and Derived Meanings of Pippalāda (2 definitions)
- eating the fruit of the Peepal tree  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > (H3) [Printed book page 628,1] पिप्पला (pippalā) द (da) mfn. eating the fruit of the Peepal tree, BhP. [ ID=124360 ]
- given to sensual pleasures  
  *Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899)*
  > given to sensual pleasures, ib. [ ID=124361 ]

## Sources

Definitions from Cappeller Sanskrit-English Dictionary; Index to the Names in the Mahabharata; Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary (1899); The Purana Index; The Vedic Index of Names and Subjects.
Text from the Cologne Digital Sanskrit Lexicon, University of Cologne.

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