Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s18.732

v1.c3.s18.732

Dru-han, ‘wood-cutter,’ seems to be meant by the word druhantara in the Rigveda,¹ where it is usually taken as druham-tara, ‘fiend-overpowering.’ But as an epithet of paraśu, ‘axe,’ the other sense (‘mighty wood-cutter’)² is more probable.³