Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s12.212

v1.c3.s12.212

¹² Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 3, 2, 6. So Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 44, 98, takes Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5, 6, 8, where Sāyaṇa hesitates between identifying the two and distinguishing them. It seems reasonable to regard Gāthā as the wider term which covers, but is not coextensive with, Nārāśaṃsī. Cf. Sāyaṇa’s example of a Gāthā in his commentary on Aitareya Āraṇyaka, ii. 3, 6: prātaḥ prātav anṛtaṃ te vadanti, ‘they every morning tell an untruth,’ which is clearly not a Nārāśaṃsī. Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 689 et seq.; Weber, Episches im Vedischen Ritual, 4 et seq.; Max Müller, Ancient Sanskrit Literature, 493.