Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8.14
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8.14
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v1.c3.s8.14
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.