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सव्यष्ठा (savyaSThA)

 
Capeller Eng
English
सव्य°ष्ठा॑
m.
 the charioteer standing on the left.
Spoken Sanskrit
English
सव्यष्ठा - savyaSThA -
m.
 - warrior standing on the left side
Monier Williams Cologne
English
सव्य—ष्ठा॑
m.
 a warrior standing on the left side (in a chariot),
AV.
Vedic Reference
English
Savya-ṣṭhā, ^1 Savya-ṣṭhṛ, ^2 Savye-ṣṭha, ^3 and Savya-stha^4
are all various forms of the word for ‘car-fighter, ’ as opposed
to Sārathi, ‘charioteer, ’ showing that, as was natural, the
fighter stood on the left of the driver. The commentators^5 are
inclined to see in the Savyaṣṭhā merely another ‘charioteer, ’
but this is quite unjustifiable, ^6 and is perhaps due to later caste
prejudice against a Śūdra charioteer.
1) Av. viii. 8, 23.
2) Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 2, 4, 9
3, 1, 8
4, 3, 17, 18.
3) Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa. i. 7, 9, 1.
4) Kāṇva recension of the Śatapatha
Brāhmaṇa, Eggeling, Sacred Books of
the East, 41, 62, n. 1
Maitrāyaṇī Saṃ-
hitā, iv. 3, 8.
5) On Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, v. 3, 1, 8
Taittirīya Brāhmaṇa, loc. cit.
6) Eggeling, loc. cit.
Hopkins, Journal
of the American Oriental Society, 13,
235.
Cf. Zimmer, Altindisches Leben, 296.