सलिलवात (salilavAta)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishSalila-vāta occurs in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās^1 as an adjec-
tive meaning ‘favoured with a wind from the water.’^2 It
probably refers to the wind from the ocean, the south-west
monsoon.^3
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, iv. 4, 12, 3
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxiv. 4
Maitrāyaṇī
Saṃhitā, iii. 16, 4.
2) Or, according to the commentator,
salilākhyena vāta-viśeṣeṇa anugṛhītaḥ,
‘favoured by a kind of wind called
Salila.’
3) Indian Empire, 1, 110. The mon-
soon is little noted in the Vedic texts,
except in so far as the Marut hymns
may be deemed to be a description of
the monsoon. See Rv. i. 19, 7
37,
6 et seq.
38, 8
64, 8
88, 5
v. 83,
1 et seq.
85, 4
Zimmer, Altindisches
Leben, 42-44.
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