The History of Indian Literature c9.420

c9.420

∗ "In the sense of elephant the word *nága* occurs once in the Vṛihad-Áraṇyaka, Mádhy., i. 1. 24" (Errata, first German ed.). [Also in the Ait. Br., viii. 22; whereas in the Śat. Br., xi. 2. 7. 12, *mahánága* is better interpreted, with Sáyaṇa, as 'serpent.' The antiquity of this latter meaning is favoured by etymology, cf. Engl. *snake*; see Kuhn's *Zeitschrift*, ix. 233, 234.]