Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s4.185
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s4.185
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v1.c3.s4.185
Upa-vāka occurs in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā¹ and the Brāhmaṇas² as a description of a species of grain, the Wrightia antidysenterica, known later as Indra-yava. The commentator Mahīdhara³ simply glosses it with the more general term Yava.