Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s11.942

v1.c3.s11.942

Kauśāmbeya is the patronymic (‘descendant of Kuśāmba’) of a teacher Proti in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹ according to the St. Petersburg Dictionary: a view supported by the fact that Kuśāmba actually occurs as the name of a man in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa.² It is, however, possible that the word means a ‘native of the town Kauśāmbī’ as understood by Harisvāmin in his commentary on the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.³