Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s17.76

v1.c3.s17.76

Tanti occurs in one passage of the Rigveda,¹ where Roth² renders the plural of the word by ‘files’ of calves. But it seems rather to have the sense which it has in the later literature, of ‘cords,’ here used to fasten the calves.