History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v6.c82.112

v6.c82.112

⁷¹⁹ बृहस्पतिः प्रथमं जायमानो महो ज्योतिषः परमे व्योमन्। सप्तास्यस्तुविजातो रवेण वि सप्तरश्मिरधमत्तमांसि ॥ ऋ IV. 50.4 = अथर्व 20. 88.4, बृहस्पतिः प्रथमं जायमानस्तिष्यं नक्षत्रमभिसम्बभूव। श्रेष्ठो देवानां पृतनासु जिष्णु दिशोऽनु सर्वा अभयं नो अस्तु ॥ तै ब्रा III 1 1.5. तिष्य is the same as पुष्य and its presiding deity is बृहस्पति in तै. ब्रा. III. 1.1 5, even in such later works as गोभिलगृह्य III. 3.14 तैषी means पौषी (पौर्णमासी). तिष्य occurs in Ṛg. V 54 13 (Treasure that does not fail as तिष्य does not form the heavens) and X 64 8 'we invoke the three times seven flowing rivers, the great waters, Kṛśānu, Tiṣya and Rudra'. सायण paraphrases the first as आदित्य and the second as नक्षत्र. Vide Fleet's interpretation of Ṛg. V 54 13 in JRAS for 1911 at page 516 which differs.