Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s8.796

v2.c4.s8.796

Śyāparṇa Sāyakāyana is the name of a man, the last for whom five victims were slain at the building of the sacrificial altar according to the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.¹ The same text² again mentions him as a builder of the fire-altar. He must have been connected in some way with the Salvas.³ His family, the Śyāparṇas, appear in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa⁴ as a self-assertive family of priests whom king Viśvantara excluded from his sacrifice, but whose leader, Rāma Mārgaveya, induced him to take them back. In some way Śyāparṇa was connected with the defeat of the Pañcālas by the Kuntis.⁵