Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v2.c5.86

v2.c5.86

Vāc.—Grierson, in his discussion¹ of the Paiśācī speech, holds that the passage cited as the speech of the Asuras in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, he *’lavo* (= *he ’rayaḥ*),² can be regarded as in Paiśācī just as much as in Māgadhī, since the change of *r* to *l*, and of *y* to *v*, is found in Paiśācī also. Sten Konow,² however, considers that Paiśācī was the speech used in the Vindhya region. It would be unwise, as a matter of fact, to lay stress on the phrase *he ’lavo*, because both the reading and the sense are by no means certain.³ But it should be noted that the easterners and the Asuras are elsewhere in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa⁴ connected: this tells against Dr. Grierson’s view.