Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.201

v2.c4.201

In several other passages of the Rigveda¹³ the Pūrus as a people seem to be meant. The Nirukta¹⁴ recognizes the general sense of ‘man,’ but in no passage is this really necessary or even probable. So utterly, however, is the tradition lost that the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa¹⁵ explains Pūru in the Rigveda¹⁶ as an Asura Rakṣas; it is only in the Epic that Pūru revives as the name of a son of Yayāti and Śarmiṣṭhā.¹⁷