Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.15

v1.c3.s21.15

Pakṣa is, in the Atharvaveda,¹ applied to some part of a house, either the ‘side posts,’ according to Roth,² Zimmer,³ and Grill,⁴ or ‘sides,’ as understood by Whitney⁵ and Bloomfield.⁶ The description of the roof (Chadis) in the Atharvaveda⁷ as catuṣ-pakṣa, ‘four-sided,’ tells in favour of the second explanation. In the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa⁸ Pakṣa is used of the sides of a chariot. For Pakṣa as the ‘half’ of a month, see Māsa.