Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s4.39

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² Rv. i. 31, 12; ii. 6, 4; 27, 17; v. 39, 4; 42, 8; vi. 27, 8, etc. So Magha-tti, ‘giving of gifts,’ Rv. iv. 37, 8; v. 79, 5; viii. 24, 10, etc.; Magha-deya, ‘giving of gifts,’ vii. 67, 9; x. 156, 2; Maghavat-tva, ‘liberality,’ vi. 27, 3. The word Maghavan is the epithet *par excellence* of Indra in the Rv. (iii. 30, 3; iv. 16, 1; 31, 7; 42, 5, etc.), and survives in post-Vedic literature as a name of Indra; otherwise, even in the later Saṃhitās, it is very rare, occurring practically as a divine epithet only (of Indra, Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iv. 4, 8, 1; Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, i. 3, 13; Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, ii. 11).