[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.s19.291 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s19.291 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s19.291 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s19.291](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.291) Dhvasra is named with Puruṣanti in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa¹ as giving gifts to Taranta and Purumīḍha. These two, being kings, could not² properly accept gifts which Brāhmaṇas alone could accept, but by becoming authors of a verse of the Rigveda³ they qualified themselves to accept them. The verse mentions the names in the dual as \*Dhvasrayoḥ Puruṣantyoḥ\*, ‘from the two, Dhvasra and Puruṣanti.’⁴ In the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa⁵ the names occur in the dual as \*Dhvasre Puruṣantī\*, a reading which is confirmed by the Nidāna Sūtra.⁶ The former is necessarily a feminine form, though Sāyaṇa, in his comment on the passage, explains it as really an irregular masculine. According to Roth,⁷ the feminine is a corruption based on the dual form in the verse of the Rigveda mentioned above; but the names may be those of women,⁸ as Benfey⁹ inclines to believe. Weber¹⁰ suggests that the two were demons, but this is, as Sieg¹¹ shows, quite unnecessary. Dhvasra is no doubt identical with Dhvasanti. - [Previous: v1.c3.s19.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.290) - [Next: v1.c3.s19.292](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.292) - [Up: v1.c3.s19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19) ## Linked texts (3) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.9.58.3) — Sanskrit - [Nidānasūtra](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.chanda.nidana) — Patañjali (grammarian), Sanskrit - [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.pancavimsa) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.291](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s19.291) · Pramāṇa