Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s20.49

v1.c3.s20.49

³⁵ vi. 110, 2. This constellation, ‘the slayer of the oldest,’ was apparently of evil omen. Cf. Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 5, 2, 8. Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 361, equates it with Antares or Cor Scorpionis, with or without σ, τ Scorpionis (Jyaiṣṭhaghni is a misreading in the edition of Whitney and Roth).