[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.s21.709 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.709 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s21.709 - **Language:** English ### [v1.c3.s21.709](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.709) Pāka-dūrvā is, in a verse of the Rigveda,¹ included with Kiyāmbu and Vyalkaśā among the plants used for growing on the spot where the corpse of the dead man has been consumed with fire.² The verse is repeated in the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka³ with the variant Kyāmbu. In the Atharvaveda⁴ the word is read Śāṇdadūrvā. Pākadūrvā is probably, as Sāyaṇa understands it, \*paripakva-dūrvā\*, ‘ripe or edible millet.’ Śāṇdadūrvā is explained by the commentator⁵ in various ways, as millet ‘having egg-shaped roots’ (\*i.e.\*, \*śāṇḍa\*, not \*śāṇḍa\*), or as ‘having long joints,’ with the additional remark that it was called \*bṛhad-dūrvā\*, ‘large millet.’ In the Taittirīya Āraṇyaka, on the other hand, the commentary explains Pākadūrvā as small millet. - [Previous: v1.c3.s21.708](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.708) - [Next: v1.c3.s21.710](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.710) - [Up: v1.c3.s21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21) ## Linked texts (1) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.10.16.13) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.709](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s21.709) · Pramāṇa