विषूवन्त्

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

1. Viṣūvant denotes in the Atharvaveda and later the middle day in the Sattra or sacrificial session of a year's duration. Tilak argues that the Viṣūvant literally means the day when night and daylight are equal--i.e., the equinoctial day--and that this is the true sense of the word. But the theory is without probability.

^4 Cf. Whitney, Journal of the American Oriental Society, 16, ixxxiii. et seq.

2. Viṣūvant occurs in the description of the house in the Atharvaveda. The meaning seems to be tha ‘ridge of the roof.’