[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.s18.635 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.635 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.635 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s18.635](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.635) Deśa, ‘land,’ is a word that does not come into use till the time of the Upaniṣads and Sūtras,¹ excepting one occurrence in the latest period of the Brāhmaṇa² literature, and one in a much-discussed passage of the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,³ where the Sarasvatī is mentioned as having five tributaries. This passage militates against the view that Sarasvatī was a name of the Indus, because the use of Deśa here seems to indicate⁴ that the seer of the verse placed the Sarasvatī in the Madhya-deśa or ‘Middle Country,’ to which all the geographical data of the Yajurvedas point.⁵ - [Previous: v1.c3.s18.634](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.634) - [Next: v1.c3.s18.636](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.636) - [Up: v1.c3.s18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18) ## Linked texts (6) - [Kātyāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.katyayana.15.4.17) — Kātyāyana (Vājasaneyi sūtrakāra), Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.sankhayana.4.14.6) — Śāṅkhāyana, Sanskrit - [Lāṭyāyanaśrautasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.kalpa.srauta.latyayana.8.6.28) — Lāṭyāyana, Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.8.10) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.4.1) — Sanskrit - [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.34.11) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.635](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s18.635) · Pramāṇa