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नमीसाप्य (namIsApya)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Namī Sāpya is the name of a man in the Rigveda.^1 Weber^2
thinks that he is mentioned as a priest, but the passages suit
a king better, and in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa^3 he appears
as Namī Sāpya, Vaidcho rājā, ‘King of Videha.’ In one
passage^4 he is represented as engaged in the contest against
Namuci.
1) vi. 20, 6
x. 48, 9. Simply Namī
in i. 53, 7.
2) Indische Studien, 1, 231, 232.
3) xxv. 10, 17.
4) Rv. i. 53, 7.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 149
Macdonell, Vedic Myth-
ology, p. 161
Hopkins, Transactions of
the Connecticut Academy of Arts and
Sciences, 15, 49. Sāpya may be read
Sāyya, but Sāyaṇa recognizes the p
Oldenberg, Zeitschrift der Deutscheu
Morgenländischen Gesellschaft, 55, 328.