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नडनैषध (naDanaiSadha)

 
Vedic Reference
English
2. Naḍa Naiṣadha is mentioned in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, ^1
where he seems to be^2 a human king who is compared with
Yama, the god of death, because of his conquests. Being
there identified with the southern sacrificial fire, he was pre-
sumably a king of the south, just as Yama is connected with
the south.
1) ii. 2, 2, 1. 2.
2) Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 225-227,
followed by Eggeling, Sacred Books of
the East, 12, 338, notes 4 and 5. The
printed text has Naiṣidha by error.