Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.191
Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.191
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v2.c4.s9.191
Sa-patnī occurs in the Rigveda in the sense of ‘co-wife;’¹ in the first and the last Maṇḍalas it means co-wife as a ‘rival.’² In post-Vedic Sanskrit the word becomes a synonym for ‘rival.’