दिव्यश्वन् (divyazvan)
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EnglishDivya Śvan, the ‘divine dog, ’ in one passage of the Athar-
vaveda^1 appears to denote Canis major or Sirius. But Bloom-
field^2 thinks that the two divine dogs referred to in the
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā^3 and the Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa^4 are the sun
and moon, and that the sun is meant in the Atharvaveda.
1) vi. 80, 1.
2) Journal of the American Oriental
Society, 15, 163
Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, 500, 501.
3) i. 6, 9.
4) i. 1, 2, 4-6.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 353
Whitney, Translation of the Atharva-
veda, 341.
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