[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.s21.120 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.120 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.120 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.120) Paḍbīśa, the ‘foot-fetter’ of a horse in five passages, two in the Rigveda,¹ and one each in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad,² the Chāndogya Upaniṣad,³ and the Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka.⁴ Elsewhere⁵ its uses are metaphorical. According to Roth,⁶ the literal sense is ‘foot-fastening’ (pad being = pad, ‘foot,’ and bīśa, written vīśa in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, being connected with the Latin vincire, ‘bind’). Pischel⁷ objects that the sense of ‘foot-fastening’ involves the absurdity, in the Upaniṣad passages, of a fine horse from the Sindhu (Indus) being spoken of as tearing up the peg to which it is fastened. He suggests instead the meaning of ‘hobble,’ which must be right.⁸ - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.119](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.119) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.121](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.121) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) ## Cites (9) - [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.1.6.10.3) — Sanskrit - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.5.1.12) — Sanskrit - [Mantrabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.mantra.1.3.10) — Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.9.7) — Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.6.2.13) — Sanskrit - [Śuklayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.25.38) — Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.1.162.14) — Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.8.1.4) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit - [Kṛṣṇayajurvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*taittiriya) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.120) · Pramāṇa