[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.s9.255 # Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.255 Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.255 - **Language:** English ### [v2.c4.s9.255](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.255) Sam-aṅka is a word of obscure sense occurring in two passages of the Atharvaveda.¹ Bloomfield² renders it ‘hook’ in the first, and takes it to mean an insect destructive of grain in the other. - [Previous: v2.c4.s9.254](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.254) - [Next: v2.c4.s9.256](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.256) - [Up: v2.c4.s9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.255](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.macdonell-keith-1912.v2.c4.s9.255) · Pramāṇa