Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.1

v1.c3.s17.1

Jhaṣa is mentioned in the story of Manu told in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa,¹ where it means a ‘great fish’ (mahā-matsya) according to the commentator. Eggeling² suggests that a horned fish is meant, because in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā³ the Iḍā, or personified libation, is represented as a cow, and this may have brought in the idea of a horned fish in the later form of an old legend. But *cf.* Jaṣa.