Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s16.304

v1.c3.s16.304

Jīva-gṛbh, ‘seizing alive,’ is, according to Roth,¹ the term for a police official in the Rigveda.² But although this sense is rendered possible by the mention of Madhyamaśī, perhaps ‘arbitrator,’ in the same passage,³ it is neither necessary nor probable.⁴