Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.284

v1.c3.s11.284

Kāmpīla.—In one passage of the Yajurveda Saṃhitās¹ the epithet Kāmpīla-vāsinī is applied to a woman, perhaps the king’s Mahiṣī or chief wife, whose duty it was to sleep beside the slaughtered animal at the horse sacrifice (Aśvamedha). The exact interpretation of the passage is very uncertain, but both Weber² and Zimmer³ agree in regarding Kāmpīla as the name of the town known as Kāmpilya in the later literature, and the capital of Pañcāla in Madhyadeśa.