Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.1290

v2.c4.s9.1290

Sva-sara, according to the St. Petersburg Dictionary, denotes ‘cattle stall,’¹ and more generally ‘dwelling-place,’ ‘house,’² and then ‘nest of birds.’³ Geldner,⁴ however, shows that the real sense is the ‘wandering at will’ of cattle, more precisely their ‘grazing in the morning,’⁵ and in the case of birds their ‘early flight’ from the nest,⁶ while metaphorically it is applied first to the morning pressing of Soma and then to all three pressings.⁷