वृचीवन्त्

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

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

Vṛcīvant is the name of a tribe referred to once in the Rigveda, where it is clearly stated that the Sṛñjaya king, Daivavāta, conquered the Turvaśa king and the Vṛcīvants. Zimmer thinks that the Vṛcīvants and the Turvaśa people should be identified, but this is both unnecessary and improbable; it is adequate to assume that they were allied against the Sṛñjayas. The Vṛcīvants appear again only in the strange legend in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, according to which the Jahnus and the Vṛcīvants contended for sovereignty, Viśvāmitra, the Jahnu king, winning it by his knowledge of a certain rite. See also Hariyūpīyā.