Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.164

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²⁶ Cf. Rv. i. 24, 13. 15; vii. 86, 5; Av. vi. 63, 3=84, 4; 115, 2. 3; 121; xix. 47, 9; 50, 1, all of which passages are cited by Zimmer, 181, 182, to prove this practice. But it must be noted that Rv. vii. 86, 5, alone is not at all conclusive evidence, though Av. xix. 47, 9; 50, 1 (*drupade āhan*), probably mean the same thing. Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 976, 983, renders the passages as referring to casting a thief into a snare, and Pischel, *Vedische Studien*, I, 106, makes Rv. vii. 86, 5, refer to the cattle-thief (*paśu-tṛp*) taking away the rope from the calf he means to steal. For Rv. x. 4, 6, see above, n. 10. The German and Slavonic parallels cited by Zimmer, 182, n., support his view. See also for a similar punishment in case of debt, Ṛṇa.