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वृचीवत् (vRcIvat)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
वृची॑वत्
m.
pl.
N.
 of a family (the descendants of Vara-śikha, slain by Indra),
RV.
Monier Williams 1872
English
वृचीवत् वृचीवत्, आन्, m., Ved., N. of the
oldest of the sons of the Asura Vara-śikha
(अन्तस्), m.
pl. the sons or family of Vara-śikha (slain by Indra).
Vedic Reference
English
Vṛcīvant is the name of a tribe referred to once in the
Rigveda, ^1 where it is clearly stated that the Sṛñjaya king,
Daivavāta, conquered the Turvaśa king and the Vṛcīvants.
Zimmer^2 thinks that the Vṛcīvants and the Turvaśa people
should be identified, but this is both unnecessary and improb-
able
it is adequate to assume that they were allied against^3
the Sṛñjayas. The Vṛcīvants appear again only in the strange
legend in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, ^4 according to which the
Jahnus and the Vṛcīvants contended for sovereignty, Viśvā-
mitra, the Jahnu king, winning it by his knowledge of a
certain rite. See also Hariyūpīyā.
1) vi. 27, 5 et seq.
2) Altindisches Leben, 124.
3) Oldenberg, Buddha, 404
Ludwig,
Translation of the Rigveda, 3, 153:
Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, 1, 105.
4) xxi. 12, 2.
Grassman
German
vṛcī́vat, m. [glanzbegabt, von *varc], Eigenname einer Schaar von Dämonen, die von Indra bekämpft werden.
-antas {468, 6}.
-atas [A. p.] {468, 5}. _{468, 7}.