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Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8: Ai

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8

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Ai

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Aikādaśākṣa Mānu-tantavya appears in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa¹ as a king who observed the rule of sacrificing when the sun had risen (*udita-homin*), and as a contemporary of Nagarin Jāna-śruteya.

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¹ v. 30. Cf. Weber, *Indische Studien*, 1, 223.

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Aikṣvāka, ‘descendant of Ikṣvāku,’ is the patronymic borne by Purukutsa in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.¹ Another Aikṣvāka is Vārṣṇi, a teacher mentioned in the Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa.² A king Hariścandra Vaidhasa Aikṣvāka is known to the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,³ and Tryaruṇa is an Aikṣvāka in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa.⁴

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¹ xiii. 5, 4, 5.

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² i. 5, 4.

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³ vii. 13, 16.

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⁴ xiii. 3, 12.

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Aitareya, perhaps a patronymic from Itara, though the commentator Sāyaṇa¹ regards the word as a metronymic from Itarā, is an epithet of Mahidāsa in the Aitareya Āraṇyaka² and the Chāndogya Upaniṣad.³

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¹ Cited by Aufrecht, *Aitareya Brāhmaṇa*, 3.

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² ii. 1, 8; 3. 7.

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³ iii. 16, 7. *Cf.* Weber, *Indische Studien*, i, 389. The form Aitareyin occurs in the Anupada Sūtra, viii. 1; Āśvalāyana Srauta Sūtra, i. 3, etc.; and a Mahaitareya in Āśvalāyana Gṛhya Sūtra, iii. 4, 4, etc.

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Aitaśa, Aitaśāyana. See Etaśa, Etaśāyana. The Aitaśa-pralāpa, or ‘Discourse of Aitaśa,’ is a part of the Atharvaveda.¹

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¹ xx. 129-132. *Cf.* Bṛhaddevatā, viii. 101, with Macdonell’s note.

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Aiti-hāsika.—This term was applied to the people who explained the Vedic hymns by treating them as legendary history (Itihāsa), as Sieg¹ shows by the passages of the Nirukta,² where their views are opposed to those of the Nairuktas, who relied rather on etymology. Sieg³ also seems right in finding them in the Naidānas of the Nirukta:⁴ it is possible that their textbook was called the Nidāna.

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¹ *Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda*, 13 et seq.

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² ii. 16; xii. 1, etc.

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³ *Op. cit.*, 29.

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⁴ vi. 9; vii. 6.

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Aibhāvata, ‘descendant of Ibhāvant,’ is the patronymic of Pratīdarśa.¹

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¹ Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 8, 2, 3.

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Airāvata, ‘son of Irāvant,’ is the patronymic of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, as a snake demon,¹ in the Atharvaveda² and the Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa.³

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¹ In the later literature Airāvata is the elephant of Indra : perhaps connected with this Vedic snake demon, as *nāga* means both ‘serpent’ and ‘elephant.’

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² viii. 10, 29.

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³ xxv. 15, 3.

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Ailūṣa, ‘descendant of Ilūṣa,’ is the patronymic of Kavaṣa.

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Aiṣa-kṛta. See Śitibāhu.

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Aiṣā-vīra.—The Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa once¹ refers to the Aiṣā-vīras as officiating at a sacrifice, with the implication that they were bad sacrificers. Sāyaṇa regards the word as a proper name (‘descendants of Eṣavīra’), denoting the members of a despised family. But Roth may be right in explaining the word both in the passage mentioned above and elsewhere as meaning ‘weak’² or ‘insignificant man.’³

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¹ xi. 2, 7, 32.

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² In the St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.

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³ In Böhtlingk’s Dictionary, s.v. (‘one who wishes to be a man, but is not’). Cf. Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ix. 5, 1, 16; Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, i. 1, where, however, Lindner’s edition reads saiṣā vīra iva. Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, i, 228; Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 44, 45.

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Aiṣumata, ‘descendant of Iṣumant,’ is the patronymic of Trāta in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa.¹

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¹ Indische Studien, 4, 372.

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