Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1.1
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s1.1
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v2.c4.s1.1
Phaṇa occurs in some manuscripts of the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad,¹ and is explained as meaning an ‘ornament.’ But it is merely a misreading of the correct word phala in the compound phala-hastāḥ, ‘bearing fruits in their hands.’