Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.597

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³ Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iv. 2, 5, 6, has sumati-tsaru; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, ii. 7, 12; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xvi. 12; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xii. 71; Vasiṣṭha Dharma Sūtra, ii. 34, have somapitsaru, which Vasiṣṭha renders as ‘provided with a handle for the drinker of Soma’ (i.e., somapi-tsaru). Weber, Indische Studien, 17, 255, suggests soma-sa-tsaru, ‘with (sa-) strap (uman, a conjectural word) and handle’ (tsaru). Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 116, prefers to read throughout sumati-tsaru, ‘with well-smoothed handle,’ from the root seen in mati-kṛ, etc. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 236; Bühler, Sacred Books of the East, 14, 13.