Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.546

v1.c3.s18.546

1. Dṛti, a ‘leather bag to hold fluids,’ is frequently mentioned in the Rigveda¹ and later.² In one passage³ it is called *dhmāta*, ‘inflated,’ the man afflicted with dropsy being compared with such a bag. Milk (Kṣīra) and intoxicating liquor (Surā) are mentioned as kept in bags.⁴ 2. Dṛti Aindrota (‘descendant of Indrota’) is mentioned in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa¹ as a contemporary of Abhipratārin Kākṣaseni and as a pupil of Indrota Daivāpa in a Vamśa (list of teachers) in the Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa.² Possibly the same Dṛti is meant in the compound Dṛti-Vātavantau, which is found in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa.³ The former is here said to have continued, after the Mahāvrata was over, the sacrificial session in which both had been engaged, with the result that his descendants prospered more than the Vātavatas.