Vedic Metre in its Historical Development c7.s3.5

c7.s3.5

5. Technical terms chiefly of ritual and philosophy: ásat, ásat ‘non-existent’; ásu ‘existence,’ with *asutŕp, ásunīti, *gatásu; ájya ‘sacrificial butter,’ with pṛsadājyá; ātmán ‘soul,’ with *ātmadá, ātmanvánt, śatátman; áśā ‘zone’; gárhapatya ‘householdership,’ with sugārhapatyá; gāyatrí (the metre); *brahmacārín ‘student,’ with *vratacārín; cittá ‘thought’; chándas ‘hymn’; -jñānā ‘knowledge’ in *sam-, *suvi-jñānā; tápas ‘penance,’ with tápasvat; téjas ‘vital force’; díś and pradíś ‘region’; devátā ‘divinity’; devayána ‘directed to the devas’; dhátár ‘creator,’ with vidhátár; pāpá ‘sinful’ (but pāpatvá ‘feebleness’ is earlier); pitáraḥ ‘ancestors,’ with *pitr-yajñá, -yāna, and -vittá); prajápati (proper name); bráhmaṇá ‘Brahmin,’ with bráhmaṇa; bhávya ‘future’; bhágadhéya ‘portion’; bhūtá ‘past’; yájus ‘rite’; *rathamtará (a metre?); várcas ‘energy’; *viráj (a metre); viśvákarman ‘first cause’; viśvárūpa (proper name) and *viśvárūpī; śraddhá ‘faith’; sapta-ṛṣáyaḥ ‘seven singers’; sabhá ‘meeting,’ with sabhávat, *sabhāsáhā, sabhéya; sukṛtám ‘good work’; *svargá ‘heaven’; sváhā ‘amen,’ with sváhākṛta, sváhākṛti.