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रथवीतिदार्भ्य (rathavItidArbhya)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Rathavīti Dārbhya (‘descendant of Darbha’) is mentioned
once in the Rigveda^1 as residing in places abounding in kine
(gomatīr anu) far away among the hills, possibly the Himālayas,
and as the patron of the singer of the hymn. Later the tradition^2
makes him the king, whose daughter Śyāsvāśva won for his
wife by his father's and the Maruts' aid.
1) v. 61, 17. 19.
2) See Sieg, Die Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda,
50 et seq., 62, n. 2, and the criticism
in Oldenberg, Ṛgveda-Neten, 1, 353, 354
Max Müller, Sacred Books of the East,
32, 359, 362.