Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.243

v1.c3.s16.243

Jāmi, a word which appears originally to have meant ‘related in blood,’ is not rarely used as an epithet of ‘sister’ (Svasṛ), and sometimes even denotes ‘sister’ itself, the emphasis being on the blood-relationship.¹ So it appears in a passage of the Atharvaveda,² where ‘brotherless sisters’