पुरुषमृग (puruSamRga)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishPuruṣa Mṛga the ‘man wild beast, ’ occurs in the list of
victims at the Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’) in the Yajurveda.^1
Zimmer's^2 view that the ape is meant seems probable.
According to him also, the word Puruṣa alone, in two passages
of the Atharvaveda, ^3 refers to the ape and its cry (māyu)
but
this sense is not necessary, and it is not adopted by Bloomfield, ^4
though Whitney^5 does not think the rendering ‘cry of a man’
satisfactory, the term māyu not being properly applicable to
the noise made by human beings.
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 15, 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 16
Vāja-
saneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 35.
2) Altindisches Leben, 85.
3) vi. 38, 4
xix. 39, 4.
4) Hymns of the Atharvaveda. 117.
5) Translation of the Atharvaveda,
309.
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