मन्थालव (manthAlava)
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EnglishManthālava, ^1 Mānthīlava^2 are the names in the Yajurveda
Saṃhitās of a victim at the Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’).
What it was is unknown: the commentator Mahīdhara^3 thinks
it was a kind of mouse
Sāyaṇa explains it as a ‘water-cock’
(jala-kukkuṭa). Possiby, if Sāyaṇa's^4 version of the parallel
word Manthāvala is to be trusted, the ‘flying fox’ may be
meant.^5
1) Maitrāyaṇī Saṃhitā, iii. 14, 19,
where there is a variant Mātālava
Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, xxiv. 38.
2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 5, 18, 1.
3) On Vājasaneyi Saṃhitā, loc. cit.
4) On Taittirīya Saṃhitā, loc. cit. Cf.
Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 86.
5) Böhtlingk, Dictionary, s.v., and
also s.v. māndhāla.
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