Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.1072
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.1072
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v2.c4.s4.1072
Yāska (‘descendant of Yaska ’) is mentioned in the first two Vamśas (lists of teachers) of the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad¹ as a contemporary of Āsurāyaṇa and a teacher of Bhāradvāja. Whether Yāska, author of the Nirukta,² was the same person, it is, of course, impossible to say.