Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.703

v1.c3.s21.703

⁵ St. Petersburg Dictionary, *s.v.* 2. Max Müller, *Sacred Books of the East*, 32, 260, 398, 399, takes Pastyāvant as a place-name, but thinks that *pastyā* denotes ‘hamlet,’ or, as an epithet of Aditi, refers to her as a ‘housewife’ (Rv. iv. 55, 3; viii. 27, 5).