[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.s18.487 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.487 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.487 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s18.487](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.487) Dur-gaha is mentioned in a hymn of the Rigveda,¹ where his grandsons are lauded for their generosity, though Sāyaṇa renders the word adjectivally.² In another passage of the Rigveda,³ however, Sāyaṇa sees in the epithet Daurgaha a description of Purukutsa as Durgaha’s son, who was either captured by the enemy or slain, and whose wife, Purukutsānī, then obtained a son, Trasadasyu, to restore the line; he also quotes a story, not found in the Bṛhaddevatā,⁴ to support this interpretation. On the other hand, the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa⁵ seems to take Daurgaha as meaning a horse. Sieg⁶ thinks that the same sense should be adopted in the Rigveda passage, which he interprets as referring to the sacrifice of a horse, Daurgaha, by King Purukutsa to gain a son; he also sees in Dadhikrāvan, with Pischel⁷ and Ludwig,⁸ a real horse, the charger of Trasadasyu. The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa’s interpretation of Daurgaha is, however, doubtful, and cannot be regarded as receiving support from the case of Dadhikrāvan, who was probably a divinity, and not a real horse at all.⁹ - [Previous: v1.c3.s18.486](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.486) - [Next: v1.c3.s18.488](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.488) - [Up: v1.c3.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18) ## Linked texts (3) - [Bṛhaddevatā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.misc.anukramani.brhaddevata) — Śaunaka, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.487](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.487) · Pramāṇa