Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.464

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¹ Rv. x. 62, 2; Av. i. 22, 2, etc.; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xviii. 6; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, i. 9, 1, 13, etc. So the adjective dīrghāyus, Rv. iv. 15, 9. 10; x. 85, 39; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xii. 100, etc. The Brāhmaṇas regularly express the reward for ritual actions by the phrase sarvam āyur eti, ‘he lives all his days.’ The ideal of life is 100 years. See Weber, Indische Studien, 17, 193; Festgruss an Roth, 137; Lanman, Sanskrit Reader, 384.