Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.457
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.457
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v1.c3.s21.457
Pari-vitta denotes an ‘elder brother who is not married when his younger brother is.’ The term occurs in the list of sinful persons in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās¹ as well as in the Atharvaveda,² where Ludwig³ needlessly proposes to read *parivettā*, the ‘younger brother who marries before his eldest brother.’ The name for the younger brother in the older texts is Parividāna.⁴