Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.229

v2.c4.s9.229

⁴ Vājasaneyi Samhitā, xxx. 18; Taittiriya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 4, 16, 1, with Sāyaṇa’s note. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 172, inclines to see in the formula (Vājasaneyi Samhitā, iii. 45; xx. 17; Taittiriya Samhitā, i. 8, 3, 1; Kāṭhaka Samhitā, ix. 4; Maitrāyaṇī Samhitā, i. 10, 2) ‘what sin we have committed in the village, the jungle, the Sabhā’ a reference to attacks on the great (Mahidhara on Vājasaneyi Samhitā, iii. 45), or partiality in deciding disputes (Mahidhara, ibid., xx. 17). But it may refer to gambling or other non-political activity, as Eggeling, Sacred Books of the East, 12, 398, takes it, though he renders it differently, ibid., 44, 265.