[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.s7 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s7: E Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s7 - **Language:** English ### E ### [v1.c3.s7.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.1) Eka-dyū is mentioned as a poet in one hymn of the Rigveda.¹ ### [v1.c3.s7.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.2) ¹ viii. 80, 10. \*Cf.\* Ludwig, \*Translation of the Rigveda\*, 3, 112. ### [v1.c3.s7.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.3) Eka-yāvan Gām-dama is a man mentioned in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa¹ and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa.² ### [v1.c3.s7.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.4) ¹ xxi. 14, 20. ### [v1.c3.s7.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.5) ² ii. 7, 11 (Kāṃdama). \*Cf.\* Weber, \*Indische Studien\*, i. 32; Hopkins, \*Transactions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts and Sciences\*, 15, 69. ### [v1.c3.s7.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.6) Eka-rāj, ‘sole ruler,’ ‘monarch,’ seems to mean no more than ‘king.’ In the Rigveda¹ the term is used metaphorically only. But it is found with the literal sense in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,² as well as in the Atharvaveda.³ ### [v1.c3.s7.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.7) ¹ viii. 37, 3. ### [v1.c3.s7.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.8) ² viii. 15. ### [v1.c3.s7.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.9) ³ iii. 4, 1. Cf. Weber, Rājasūya, 141. ### [v1.c3.s7.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.10) Ekāyana denotes some object of study in the Chāndogya Upaniṣad.¹ The St. Petersburg Dictionary renders it ‘doctrine (ayana) of unity’ (eka), ‘monotheism,’ while Max Müller prefers ‘ethics,’ and Monier-Williams in his Dictionary ‘worldly wisdom.’² ### [v1.c3.s7.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.11) ¹ vii. 1, 2. 4; 2, 1; 7, 1. ### [v1.c3.s7.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.12) ² Max Müller and Monier-Williams thus follow Śaṅkara’s interpretation as nīti-śāstra, ‘moral teaching.’ Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, I, 267, 484; Little, Grammatical Index, 43. ### [v1.c3.s7.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.13) Ekāṣṭakā.—That Aṣṭakā is the eighth day after the full moon appears clearly from the Atharvaveda.¹ Ekāṣṭakā, or ‘sole Aṣṭakā,’ must denote not merely any Aṣṭakā, but some particular one. Sāyaṇa, in his commentary on the Atharvaveda,² in which a whole hymn celebrates the Ekāṣṭakā, fixes the date meant by the term as the eighth day in the dark half of the month of Māgha (January—February). The Ekāṣṭakā is declared in the Taittirīya Saṃhitā³ to be the time for the consecration (dīkṣā) of those who are going to perform a year-long sacrifice. See also Māsa. ### [v1.c3.s7.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.14) ¹ xv. 16, 2. Cf. Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, vi. 2, 2, 23; 4, 2, 10. II, 1; v. 7, 2, 2; Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, v. 9, 4. ### [v1.c3.s7.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.15) ² iii. 10. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 365; Weber, Naxatra, 2, 341, 342. ### [v1.c3.s7.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.16) ³ vii. 4, 8, 1. Cf. iii. 3, 8, 4; iv. 3, ### [v1.c3.s7.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.17) Ejatka is the name of an insect in the Atharvaveda.¹ ### [v1.c3.s7.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.18) ¹ v. 23, 7. Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 98; Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 262. ### [v1.c3.s7.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.19) Eḍaka appears to denote a ‘vicious ram’ in the Śatapatha¹ and Jaiminīya² Brāhmaṇas. ### [v1.c3.s7.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.20) ¹ xii. 4, 1, 4; cf. ii. 5, 2, 15. ### [v1.c3.s7.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.21) ² i. 51, 4 (Journal of the American Oriental Society, 23, 332). Cf. Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 44, 178. ### [v1.c3.s7.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.22) Eṇī denotes the ‘female antelope’ in the later Saṃhitās,¹ perhaps as the feminine of Eta. ### [v1.c3.s7.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.23) ¹ Av. v. 14, 11; Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 17; Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. v. 5, 15, 1; Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, 36; Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 82. ### [v1.c3.s7.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.24) Eta in the plural (etāḥ) denotes the steeds of the Maruts, being a swift species of deer, which are mentioned several times in the Rigveda,¹ and the skins of which are also said to be worn by the Maruts on their shoulders.² The epithet pṛthu-budhna, once applied to them in the Rigveda,³ and variously interpreted as ‘broad-hoofed,’⁴ ‘broad-chested,’⁵ and ‘broad in the hinder part,’⁶ seems to indicate that they were not gazelles.⁷ ### [v1.c3.s7.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.25) ¹ i. 165, 2; 169, 6. v. 54, 5; x. 77, 2. ### [v1.c3.s7.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.26) ² Rv. i. 166, 10. Cf. Roth, St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s7.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.27) ³ i. 169, 6. ### [v1.c3.s7.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.28) ⁴ By Grassman and Zimmer. ### [v1.c3.s7.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.29) ⁵ Griffith, Hymnus of the Rigveda, i, 235. ### [v1.c3.s7.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.30) ⁶ Monier-Williams, Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s7.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.31) ⁷ Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 83. ### [v1.c3.s7.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.32) ³ Macdonell, Vedic Mythology, pp. 149, 150. ### [v1.c3.s7.33](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.33) 1. Etaśa is in several passages of the Rigveda,¹ according to Roth² the name of a protégé whom Indra helped against the sun-god Sūrya. But in all these passages Etaśa seems merely to designate the horse of the sun. ### [v1.c3.s7.34](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.34) ¹ i. 62, 15; iv. 30, 6; v. 29, 5. ### [v1.c3.s7.35](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.35) ² St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s7.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.36) 2. Etaśa is in the Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa¹ the name of a sage who is said to have cursed his children because they interrupted him in the midst of a rite; hence the Aitaśāyanas (descendants of Etaśa) are declared to be the worst of the Bhṛgus. The same story appears in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,² where, however, the sage’s name is Aitaśa, and the Aitaśāyanas are described as the worst of the Aurvas. ### [v1.c3.s7.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.37) ¹ xxx. 5. ### [v1.c3.s7.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.38) ² vi. 33. Cf. Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, 2, 173. ### [v1.c3.s7.39](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.39) Edidhiṣuḥ-pati is a term occurring only in the Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā,¹ where the commentator Mahīdhara interprets it as meaning the ‘husband of a younger sister married before the elder sister.’ Though this sense is probably correct, the form is doubtless, as Delbrück² points out, corrupt. See Didhiṣūpati. ### [v1.c3.s7.40](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.40) ¹ xxx. 9. ### [v1.c3.s7.41](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.41) ² \*Die indogermanischen Verwandtschaftsnamen\*, 569, n. 1. ### [v1.c3.s7.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.42) Eraṇḍa, the castor-oil plant (\*Ricinus communis\*), is first mentioned in the Śāṅkhāyana Āraṇyaka (xii. 8). ### [v1.c3.s7.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.43) Evāvada is regarded by Ludwig¹ in a very obscure passage of the Rigveda² as the name of a singer beside Kṣatra, Manasa, and Yajata. The commentator Sāyaṇa also interprets the word as a proper name. Roth,³ however, considers it to be an adjective meaning ‘truthful.’ ### [v1.c3.s7.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.44) ¹ Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 138. ### [v1.c3.s7.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.45) ² v. 44, 10. ### [v1.c3.s7.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7.46) ³ St. Petersburg Dictionary, \*s.v.\* ## Linked texts (12) - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg.8.80.10) — Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.3.4.1) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.8.15) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.6.2.2.23) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.30.5) — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit - [Jaiminīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya.1.51) — Sanskrit - [Taittirīyasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.krsnayajur*taittiriya.7.4.8.1) — Sanskrit - [Taittirīyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.taittiriya.2.7.11) — Sanskrit - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.7.1.2) — Sanskrit - [Śāṅkhāyanāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.kausitaki.12.8) — Sanskrit - [Vājasaneyisaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.suklayajur*vajasaneyi.30.9) — Sanskrit - [Pañcaviṃśabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.pancavimsa) — Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s7) · Pramāṇa