Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8.30

v1.c3.s8.30

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.