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पुरुषहस्तिन् (puruSahastin)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Puruṣa Hastin (‘the man with a hand’) is found in the list
of victims at the Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’) in the Yajur-
veda.^1 It must be the ‘ape.’
1) Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 29
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 8.