Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s4.13

v1.c3.s4.13

Ugra in one passage of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad¹ seems to have a technical force, denoting ‘man in authority,’ or according to Max Müller’s rendering, ‘policeman.’ Roth² compares a passage in the Rigveda,³ where, however, the word has simply the general sense of ‘mighty man.’ Böhtlingk,⁴ in his rendering of the Upaniṣad, treats the word as merely adjectival.