[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.s8 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8: Ai Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.s8 - **Language:** English ### Ai ### [v1.c3.s8.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.1) 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. ### [v1.c3.s8.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.2) ¹ v. 30. Cf. Weber, \*Indische Studien\*, 1, 223. ### [v1.c3.s8.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.3) 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 ### [v1.c3.s8.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.4) ¹ xiii. 5, 4, 5. ### [v1.c3.s8.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.5) ² i. 5, 4. ### [v1.c3.s8.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.6) ³ vii. 13, 16. ### [v1.c3.s8.7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.7) ⁴ xiii. 3, 12. ### [v1.c3.s8.8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.8) 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 ### [v1.c3.s8.9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.9) ¹ Cited by Aufrecht, \*Aitareya Brāhmaṇa\*, 3. ### [v1.c3.s8.10](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.10) ² ii. 1, 8; 3. 7. ### [v1.c3.s8.11](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.11) 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. ### [v1.c3.s8.12](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.12) Aitaśa, Aitaśāyana. See Etaśa, Etaśāyana. The Aitaśa-pralāpa, or ‘Discourse of Aitaśa,’ is a part of the Atharvaveda.¹ ### [v1.c3.s8.13](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.13) ¹ xx. 129-132. \*Cf.\* Bṛhaddevatā, viii. 101, with Macdonell’s note. ### [v1.c3.s8.14](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.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. ### [v1.c3.s8.15](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.15) ¹ \*Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda\*, 13 et seq. ### [v1.c3.s8.16](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.16) ² ii. 16; xii. 1, etc. ### [v1.c3.s8.17](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.17) ³ \*Op. cit.\*, 29. ### [v1.c3.s8.18](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.18) ⁴ vi. 9; vii. 6. ### [v1.c3.s8.19](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.19) Aibhāvata, ‘descendant of Ibhāvant,’ is the patronymic of Pratīdarśa.¹ ### [v1.c3.s8.20](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.20) ¹ Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 8, 2, 3. ### [v1.c3.s8.21](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.21) Airāvata, ‘son of Irāvant,’ is the patronymic of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, as a snake demon,¹ in the Atharvaveda² and the Pañcavimśa Brāhmaṇa.³ ### [v1.c3.s8.22](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.22) 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.’ ### [v1.c3.s8.23](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.23) ² viii. 10, 29. ### [v1.c3.s8.24](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.24) ³ xxv. 15, 3. ### [v1.c3.s8.25](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.25) Ailūṣa, ‘descendant of Ilūṣa,’ is the patronymic of Kavaṣa. ### [v1.c3.s8.26](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.26) Aiṣa-kṛta. See Śitibāhu. ### [v1.c3.s8.27](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.27) 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 ### [v1.c3.s8.28](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.28) ¹ xi. 2, 7, 32. ### [v1.c3.s8.29](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.29) ² In the St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v. ### [v1.c3.s8.30](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.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. ### [v1.c3.s8.31](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.31) Aiṣumata, ‘descendant of Iṣumant,’ is the patronymic of Trāta in the Vamśa Brāhmaṇa.¹ ### [v1.c3.s8.32](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8.32) ¹ Indische Studien, 4, 372. ## Linked texts (10) - [Śatapathabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.satapatha.13.5.4.5) — Yājñavalkya & Śāṇḍilya (Vedic teacher), Sanskrit - [Nirukta](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vedanga.nirukta.yaska.2.16) — Yāska, Sanskrit - [Aitareyabrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.aitreya.5.30) — Mahidāsa Aitareya, Sanskrit - [Atharvavedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.atharva.20.129) — Atharvan & Aṅgiras, Sanskrit - [Kauṣītakibrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.kausitaki.1.1) — Kauṣītaki, Sanskrit - [Jaiminīyopaniṣadbrāhmaṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.brahmana.jaiminiya_upanisad.1.5.4) — Sanskrit - [Chāndogyopaniṣad](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.upanisad.mukhya.chandogya.3.16.7) — Sanskrit - [Aitareyāraṇyaka](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.aranyaka.aitareya.2.1.8) — 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.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v1.c3.s8) · Pramāṇa