[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Vedic Index of Names and Subjects](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912) › v2.c4.s8.291 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s8.291 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s8.291 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s8.291](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8.291) Śaryaṇāvant occurs in several passages of the Rigveda,¹ in all of which Sāyaṇa sees a local name. According to his account, Śaryaṇāḥ (masc. plur.) is a district in Kurukṣetra, Śaryaṇāvant being a lake not far from it in the back part (\*jaghanārdhe\*) of Kurukṣetra. The unusual consistency of his statements on this point is in favour of the word being a place name; it is also to be noted that Kurukṣetra contained the lake Anyataḥplakṣā. Roth,² however, thought that in two passages³ the word denoted merely a ‘lake,’ literally ‘(water) covered with a thicket of reeds’ (\*śaryana\*), and in the others a Soma vessel. Zimmer⁴ inclines to this rendering. On the other hand, Pischel⁵ accepts Sāyaṇa’s view. Hillebrandt⁶ also sees in the word a place name, but he is inclined to locate it among the ‘five tribes,’⁷ which is not quite inconsistent with its being in Kurukṣetra, for the connexion of the Pūrus with the later Kurus is known;⁸ or perhaps, he suggests, Śaryaṇāvant is an old name for the Wular sea of Kaśmīr, which was only a reminiscence in Vedic times. This is not probable; still less so is Ludwig’s hypothesis⁹ that the Śaryaṇāvant is the later eastern Sarasvatī. Bergaigne¹⁰ regards the name as that of a celestial preparer of Soma. - [Previous: v2.c4.s8.290](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8.290) - [Next: v2.c4.s8.292](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8.292) - [Up: v2.c4.s8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8.291](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s8.291) · Pramāṇa