[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v1.c3.s17.334 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.334 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.334 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s17.334](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.334) In the Rigveda the chief exploit of Turvaśa was his participation in the war against Sudās, by whom he was defeated.¹² Hopkins¹³ suggests that he may have been named Turvaśa because of his fleet (tura) escape from the battle. His escape may have been assisted by Indra, for in some passages¹⁴ Indra’s aid to Turvaśa (and) Yadu is referred to; it is also significant that the Anu, and apparently the Druhyu, kings are mentioned as having been drowned in the defeat, but not the Turvaśa and Yadu kings, and that Turvaśa appears in the eighth book of the Rigveda as a worshipper of Indra with the Anu prince, the successor, presumably, of the one who was drowned.¹⁵ Griffith,¹⁶ however, proposes to refer these passages to a defeat by Turvaśa and Yadu of Arṇa and Citraratha on the Sarayu;¹⁷ but the evidence for this is quite inadequate. - [Previous: v1.c3.s17.333](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.333) - [Next: v1.c3.s17.335](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.335) - [Up: v1.c3.s17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.334](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s17.334) · Pramāṇa