Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.1023

v1.c3.s21.1023

Pītha, ‘stool,’ does not occur as an uncompounded word before the Sūtras, but the compound pītha-sarpin (‘moving about in a little cart’) is found as the designation of a ‘cripple’ in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā (xxx. 21) and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa (iii. 4, 17, 1) in the list of victims at the Puruṣamedha (‘human sacrifice’).