Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.246

v1.c3.s16.246

(abhrātara iva jāmayaḥ) are referred to. The word is similarly used in the dispute occurring in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa³ as to the precedence of Rākā, or of the wives of the gods, in a certain rite. One party is there described as holding that the sister should be preferred (jāmyai vai pūrva-peyam)—apparently at a ceremonial family meal—to the wife, presumably as being of one blood with the husband, while the wife is not (being anyodaryā, ‘of another womb’).⁴ In the neuter⁵ the word means ‘relationship,’ like jāmi-tva, which also occurs in the Rigveda.⁶