[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.s5 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s5: Ū Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s5 - **Language:** English ### Ū ### [v1.c3.s5.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.1) Ūrjayant Aupamanyava is mentioned in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa¹ as a pupil of Bhānumant Aupamanyava. ### [v1.c3.s5.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.2) ¹ Indische Studien, 4, 372. ### [v1.c3.s5.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.3) Ūrjayantī is regarded by Ludwig¹ in one passage of the Rigveda² as the name of a fort, the stronghold of Nārmara. The verse is, however, quite unintelligible.³ ### [v1.c3.s5.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.4) ¹ Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 152. ### [v1.c3.s5.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.5) ² ii. 13, 8. ### [v1.c3.s5.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.6) ³ Sāyaṇa makes Urjayantī a Piśāci; Grassmann, the sun; Roth, s.v. ūrjay, takes it adjectivally. Cf. Oldenberg, Rgveda-Noten, 1, 199. ### [v1.c3.s5.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.7) Ūrjavya, a word occurring only once in the Rigveda,¹ is taken by Ludwig² to be the name of a sacrificer.³ Roth,³ however, regards the word as an adjective meaning ‘rich in strength,’ and this is the more probable interpretation. ### [v1.c3.s5.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.8) ¹ v. 41, 20. ### [v1.c3.s5.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.9) ² Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 155. ### [v1.c3.s5.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.10) ³ St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s5.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.11) Ūrṇa-nābhi,¹ Ūrṇa-vābhi, Ūrṇa-vant are all names of the spider in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas in allusion to the insect’s spinning threads of wool, as it were. ### [v1.c3.s5.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.12) ¹ Ūrṇa-nābhi (‘having wool in its navel’), Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, 2, 5; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ii. 1, 23; ūrṇa-vābhi (‘wool-spinner’), Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, viii. 1; Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 5, 1, 23; ūrṇa-vant (‘possessing wool’), Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xix. 3 (in a Mantra). ### [v1.c3.s5.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.13) Ūrṇā, ‘wool,’ is very frequently mentioned from the Rigveda¹ onwards. The Paruṣṇī country was famous for its wool,² like Gandhāra³ for its sheep. The term for the separate tufts was parvan⁴ or parus.⁵ ‘Soft as wool’ (ūrṇa-mradas)⁶ is not a rare epithet. The sheep is called ‘woolly’ (ūrṇāvati).⁷ ‘Woollen thread’ (ūrṇā-sūtra) is repeatedly referred to in the later Saṃhitās⁸ and the Brāhmaṇas.⁹ The word ūrṇā was not restricted to the sense of sheep’s wool,¹⁰ but might denote goat’s hair also.¹¹ ### [v1.c3.s5.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.14) ¹ iv. 22, 2; v. 52, 9; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 5, 1, 13; 7, 2, 10, etc.; ūrṇāyu, ‘woolly,’ Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xiii. 50; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xii. 11, 10. ### [v1.c3.s5.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.15) ² Rv., loc. cit.; Pischel, Vedische Studien, 2, 210. But cf. Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East, 32, 315. ### [v1.c3.s5.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.16) ³ Rv. i. 126, 7. ### [v1.c3.s5.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.17) ⁴ Rv. iv. 22, 10. ### [v1.c3.s5.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.18) ⁵ Rv. ix. 15, 6. ### [v1.c3.s5.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.19) ⁶ Rv. v. 5, 4; x. 18, 10; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, ii. 2; iv. 10; xxi. 33, etc. ### [v1.c3.s5.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.20) ⁷ Rv. viii. 56, 3. ### [v1.c3.s5.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.21) ⁸ Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 11, 9; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxxviii. 3; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xix. 80, etc. Cf. ūrṇā-stukā, Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, i. 28; Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxv. 3. ### [v1.c3.s5.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.22) ⁹ Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, ii. 6, 4; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 7, 2, 11, etc. ### [v1.c3.s5.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.23) ¹⁰ Cf. anaḍakīv ūrṇāḥ (‘wool not coming from the eḍaka,’ a species of sheep) in Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ii. 5, 2, 15. ### [v1.c3.s5.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.24) ¹¹ Cf. Hopkins, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 17, 83, n. ### [v1.c3.s5.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.25) Ūrṇā-vatī.—In the hymn of the Rigveda¹ which celebrates the rivers Ludwig² finds a reference to an affluent of the Indus called Ūrṇāvatī. This interpretation, however, seems certainly wrong. Roth³ renders the word merely as ‘woolly,’ and Zimmer⁴ rejects Ludwig’s explanation on the ground that it throws the structure of the hymn into confusion. Pischel⁵ makes the word an epithet of the Indus, ‘rich in sheep.’ ### [v1.c3.s5.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.26) ¹ x. 75, 8. ### [v1.c3.s5.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.27) ² Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 200. ### [v1.c3.s5.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.28) ³ St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s5.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.29) ⁴ Altindisches Leben, 429. ### [v1.c3.s5.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.30) ⁵ Vedische Studien, 2, 210. ### [v1.c3.s5.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.31) Ūrdara.—This word occurs once in the Rigveda,¹ when reference is made to filling Indra with Soma as one fills an Ūrdara with grain (Yava). Sāyaṇa renders it ‘granary,’ but Roth² and Zimmer³ seem more correct in simply making it a measure for holding grain, or ‘garner.’ ### [v1.c3.s5.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.32) ¹ ii. 14, 11. ### [v1.c3.s5.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.33) ² St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s5.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.34) ³ Altindisches Leben, 238. ### [v1.c3.s5.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.35) Ūla is a variant of Ula. ### [v1.c3.s5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.36) Ūṣa in the later Saṃhitās¹ and Brāhmaṇas² denotes salt ground suited for cattle. Cf. Ūṣa. ### [v1.c3.s5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.37) ¹ Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 2, 3, 2, etc. ### [v1.c3.s5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5.38) ² Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, iv. 27 ; Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 2, 1, 16, etc. ## Linked texts (12) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.2.13.8) — Sanskrit - [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.13.50) — Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.14.5.1.23) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit - [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.1.1.2.5) — Sanskrit - [Kāṭhakasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*kathaka.8.1) — Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.1.28) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.19.3) — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit - [Taittirīyasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*taittiriya.5.2.3.2) — Sanskrit - [Maitrāyaṇīsaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*maitrayani.3.11.9) — Sanskrit - [Bṛhadāraṇyakopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.brhadaranyaka.2.1) — Sanskrit - [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.pancavimsa) — Sanskrit - [Vaṃśabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.vamsa) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s5) · Pramāṇa