Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s20.466

v1.c3.s20.466

The term Nārāśaṃsī is restricted in some passages⁷ to a particular group of three verses of the Atharvaveda,⁸ but Oldenberg⁹ must be right in holding that the restricted sense is not to be read into the Rigveda.¹⁰ Not even in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā¹¹ is the technical sense certain, and the Bṛhaddevatā¹² gives the word a general application.