Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s7.1428

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¹⁶ Metaphorically, in the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, vi. 4, 22, Mādhyamdina, it is a pen with a bolt (sargala) and with a palisade (sa-pari-śraya). The sense of ‘pen’ is also possible in Rv. x. 97, 10; 101, 8, and is not radically opposed to it, for Vraja denotes the place where the cattle are fed, and can therefore be applied to the stall where they are during the night. Cf. Goṣṭha. 8 Rv. x. 4, 2, where the ‘warm Vraja’ to which the cows resort is alluded to, and iv. 51, 2, where the Dawns open wide the doors of the Vraja of darkness; Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 8, 12, 2, where the Vraja is said to be made of Aśvattha wood. The sense of ‘stall’ is probable in Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, i. 25. 9 See Geldner, op. cit., 2, 283 et seq.