Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s5.152

v2.c4.s5.152

Rambha seems to mean a ‘staff’ or ‘support’ in one passage of the Rigveda (viii. 45, 20). In another place (ii. 15, 9) a man is described as Rambhin, apparently as carrying a staff to support himself in old age; Sāyaṇa explains this word as ‘door-keeper’ (like one of the senses of daṇḍin, ‘staff-bearer,’ in later Sanskrit).