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1. Viṣūvant denotes in the Atharvaveda[१] and later[२] the middle day in the Sattra or sacrificial session of a year's duration. Tilak[३] 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.[४] The meaning seems to be tha ‘ridge of the roof.’[५]
- ↑ xi. 7, 15.
- ↑ Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, iv. 5, 2;
7, 1;
v. 9, 10;
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 41, 4;
iv. 18, 1;
22, 1. 2;
vi. 18, 8;
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa, xxv. 1;
xxvi. 1;
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, i. 2, 3, 2;
Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, x. 1, 2, 2;
3, 14. 23;
4, 2;
2, 1, 8, etc. - ↑ Orion, 21, 22.
- ↑ ix. 3, 8.
- ↑ Cf. Zimmer. Altindisches Leben, 151 (who thinks it is a metaphor from the parting of the hair);
Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharvaveda, 598;
Whitney, Translation of the Atharvaveda, 526.