Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s1.312

v1.c3.s1.312

Ā-sāda, ‘seat,’ occurs in the Atharvaveda¹ as a description of part of the settle (Āsandī) of the Vrātya. It seems best to regard it with Whitney² as the seat proper; Aufrecht,³ Zimmer,⁴ and Roth⁵ render it as the ‘cushion for the seat,’ but that is sufficiently described by the word Āstaraṇa.