Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c4.s9.55

v2.c4.s9.55

Saktu in the later Saṃhitās and the Brāhmaṇas¹ denotes ‘coarsely ground meal,’ ‘groats,’ especially ‘barley meal.’ In the Rigveda,² where the word occurs only once, it seems rather to mean grain before it is winnowed by the Titaü. If the latter word, however, designates a ‘sieve,’ Saktu might still mean ‘groats,’ as opposed to fine meal.