Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.1076

v1.c3.s21.1076

Punar-vasu (‘bringing goods again’), used in the dual, denotes the fifth in the series of the Vedic Nakṣatras, or ‘Lunar Mansions.’ Roth¹ takes the word to have this sense in its only occurrence in the Rigveda,² but this must be regarded as decidedly doubtful. The term is, however, found in the ordinary lists of the Nakṣatras in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas.³