सांवरणि

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Vedic Index of Names and Subjects

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

Sāṃvaraṇi is found in the Rigveda in one passage, where it naturally seems to be a patronymic (‘descendant of Saṃvaraṇa’) of Manu. According to Bloomfield, it is a corruption for Sāvarṇi, a reference to Manu's birth from the savarṇā, ‘similar’ female who was substituted for Saraṇyū according to the legend (see Manu). This is possible, but not certain. Scheftelowitz thinks that the reading of the Kaśmir manuscript of the Rigveda, which has sāṃvaraṇam, ‘found on the sacrificial ground,’ as an epithet of Soma, is to be preferred. But this seems quite improbable. We must either recognize a real man called Manu Sāṃvaraṇi; or take Manu as one name, Sāṃvaraṇi as another; or admit that Manu Sāṃvaraṇi is simply Manu with a patronymic derived from an unknown legend.