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Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s10: Au

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s10

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Aukṣa-gandhi (‘having the smell of bull’s grease’) appears in the Atharvaveda¹ as the name of an Apsaras, beside other names, of which Guggulū and Naladī clearly indicate plants. This name, therefore, presumably also denotes some sort of fragrant plant. Aukṣa in the same Saṃhitā² means ‘bull’s grease’ (from *ukṣan*, ‘bull’).

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¹ iv. 37, 3.

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² ii. 36, 7. Cf. Zimmer, *Altindisches Leben*, 69; Bloomfield, *Hymns of the Atharvaveda*, 324; Whitney, *Translation of the Atharvaveda*, 211, 212, and on Aukṣa, *ibid.*, 82, 83.

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Augra-sainya, ‘descendant of Ugrasena,’ is the patronymic of King Yuddhāṃśrauṣṭi in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa (viii. 21).

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Audanya, ‘descendant of Udanya or Odana,’ is the patronymic in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ of Muṇḍibha, who is credited with inventing an expiation for the crime of slaying a Brahmin. In the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa² the name appears in the form of Audanyava.

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¹ xiii. 3, 5, 4.

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² iii. 9, 15, 3. Cf. St. Petersburg Dictionary, *s.v.* Odana; Eggeling, *Sacred Books of the East*, 44, 341, n. 1.

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Audamaya is Weber’s¹ reading of the name of the Ātreya, who was Purohita of Aṅga Vairocana, according to the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.² Aufrecht, however, in his edition more probably takes the correct form of the name to be Udamaya.

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¹ *Indische Studien*, i, 228.

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² viii. 22. Cf. St. Petersburg Dictionary, *s.v.* Udamaya.

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Auda-vāhi, ‘descendant of Udavāha,’ appears in the first two Vamśas (lists of teachers) of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad¹ as a teacher of Bhāradvāja.

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¹ ii. 5, 20; iv. 5, 26 (in the Mādhyamdina recension).

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Aud-umbarāyaṇa, ‘descendant of Udumbara,’ is the patronymic of a grammarian in the Nirukta (i. 1).

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Aud-dālaki, ‘descendant of Uddālaka,’ is the patronymic of the teacher variously called Asurbinda¹ or Kusurubinda,² and of Śvetaketu.³

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¹ Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 75 (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 23, 327).

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² Ṣaḍviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, i. 16; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xxii. 15, 10.

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³ Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 3, 13; iv. 2, 5, 15. He is perhaps also meant in Kaṭha Upaniṣad, i. 11.

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Aud-bhāri, ‘descendant of Udbhāra,’ is the patronymic in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (xi. 8, 4, 6) of Khaṇḍika, teacher of Keśin.

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Aupa-jandhani, ‘descendant of Upajandhana,’ is the patronymic of a teacher mentioned in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad¹ as a pupil of Āsuri, and also² as a pupil of Sāyakāyana.

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¹ ii. 6, 3; iv. 6, 3 (in Vamśas).

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² iv. 5, 27 (in the Mādhyamdina recension).

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Aupa-tasvini, ‘descendant of Upatasvina,’ is the patronymic of Rāma in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa (iv. 6, 1, 7).

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Aupa-manyava, ‘descendant of Upamanyu,’ is the patronymic of various persons: see Kāmboja, Prācīnaśāla, Mahāśāla. The best known bearer of the name is the grammarian who disagreed with the onomatopoetic theory of the derivation of names, and who is mentioned by Yāska.¹ An Aupamanyavīputra occurs in the Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra² as a teacher.

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¹ i. 1; ii. 2. 6. 11, etc.

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² xxii. 1 et seq.

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Aupara, ‘descendant of Upara,’ is the patronymic of Daṇḍa in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā (vi. 2, 9, 4).

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Aupa-veśi, ‘descendant of Upaveśa,’ is the patronymic borne by Aruṇa, father of Uddālaka.¹

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¹ See Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxvi. 10, and Aruṇa.

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Aupasvatī-putra, ‘son of a female descendant of Upasvant (?),’ is mentioned as a pupil of Pārāśarīputra in a Vamśa (list of teachers) of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad.¹

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¹ vi. 5, 1 (only in the Kāṇva recension).

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Aupāvi (‘descendant of Upāva’) Jāna-śruteya (‘descendant of Janaśruti’), appears in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ and the Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā² as a sacrificer who used to offer the Vājapeya sacrifice and ascend to the other world.

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¹ v. 1, 1, 5. 7.

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² i. 4, 5. Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, i, 222, 223.

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Aupoditi, ‘descendant of Upodita,’ is the patronymic applied in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā¹ to Tumiñja, and in the Baudhāyana Śrauta Sūtra² to Gaupālāyana, son of Vyāghrapad, Sthapati (‘general’) of the Kurus. In the form of Aupoditeya, a metronymic from Upoditā, the name is found in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,³ where the Kāṇva text calls him Tumiñja Aupoditeya Vaiyāghrapadya.

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¹ i. 7, 2, 1.

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² xx. 25.

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³ i. 9, 3, 16. Cf. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 12, 271, n. 2.

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Aurṇa-vābha, ‘descendant of Ūrṇavābhi.’ (1) This is the name of a pupil of Kauṇḍinya mentioned in a Vamśa (list of teachers) of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad.¹ (2) A teacher of this name is frequently referred to in the Nirukta. His explanations in two passages² agree with those of the Nairuktas or etymological school of interpreters of the Rigveda. In other passages³ he appears rather to belong to the school of the Aitihāsikas, who relied on traditional legends. He was thus probably, as Sieg⁴ suggests, an eclectic.

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¹ iv. 5, 26 (Mādhyamdina recension).

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² vii. 15; xii. 19.

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³ vi. 13; xii. 1.

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⁴ *Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda*, 13, n. 1.

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Aurva, ‘descendant of Uru or Urva,’ appears in the Rigveda¹ in close connexion with Bhr̥gu, being probably a Bhr̥gu himself. As in one passage of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,² the descendants of Aitaśa are called the worst of the Aurvas, while the parallel version of the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa³ calls them the worst of the Bhr̥gus, the Aurvas must have been a branch of the larger family of the Bhr̥gus. Aurva himself is said in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā⁴ to have received offspring from Atri. In the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa⁵ two Aurvas are referred to as authorities. See also Kutsa.

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¹ viii. 102, 4.

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² vi. 33.

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³ xxx. 5.

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⁴ vii. 1, 8, 1.

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⁵ xxi. 10, 6. Hopkins, *Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences*, 15, 54, reads *ūrvau*. Cf. Hillebrandt, *Vedische Mythologie*, 2, 173, n. 1.

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Aulāna is a word occurring in a single passage of the Rigveda,¹ where it may possibly be a patronymic of Śamtanu as a ‘descendant of Ula.’ Ludwig,² however, conjectures that the reading should be ‘Kaulāna.’ Sieg³ regards Aulāna as a later descendant⁴ of Śamtanu, who utilized the story of Devāpi’s rain-making as an introduction to his rain hymn.

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¹ x. 98, 11.

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² Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 166.

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³ *Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda*, 141.

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⁴ Cf. Sāyaṇa on Rv. x. 98, 11: *Kuru-kula-jātaḥ Śamtanavaḥ*, ‘a descendant of Śamtanu, born in the family of the Kurus.’

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Aulunḍya, ‘descendant of Uluṇḍa,’ is the patronymic of Supratīta in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa.¹

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¹ *Indische Studien*, 4, 372.

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Auśija, ‘descendant of Uśij,’ is a patronymic clearly applied to Kakṣīvant in the Rigveda.¹ It is also applied to Ṛjiśvan,² but Ludwig³ thinks that the correct reading of the passage in question is *auśijasyarjiśvā*, ‘Ṛjiśvan, son of Auśija.’ In one verse⁴ Auśija and Kakṣīvant are both mentioned, but in such a way that two different persons must apparently be meant. In other passages where the patronymic occurs alone, it is doubtful who is meant, or whether a proper name at all is intended.⁵ Kakṣīvant Auśija appears also in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa⁶ and elsewhere.

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¹ i. 18, 1.

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² x. 99, 11.

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³ Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 143, 149.

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⁴ Rv. i. 112, 11.

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⁵ Rv. i. 119, 9; 122, 4; iv. 21, 6. 7; v. 41, 5; vi. 4, 6. *Cf.* St. Petersburg Dictionary, *s.v.*

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⁶ xiv. 11, 16. See Hopkins, *Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences*, xv. 56, n., and Kakṣīvant, n. 15.

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Auṣṭrākṣi, ‘descendant of Uṣṭrākṣa,’ occurs as the patronymic of Sāti in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa.¹

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¹ *Indische Studien*, 4, 372. *Cf.* Weber, *Indian Literature*, 75.

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