[Advaita-l] 6. Re: The source of the word Dvija in Vedas (K Ram)

[Javier Ruiz Calderon]

Hari OmWikipedia says:"The word Dvija is neither found in any Vedas and Upanishads, nor is it found in any Vedanga literature such as the Shrauta-sutras or Grihya-sutras. The word scarcely appears in Dharmasutras literature. Increasing mentions of it appear in Dharmasastras text of mid to late 1st-millennium CE texts. The presence of the word Dvija is a marker that the text is likely a medieval era Indian text".
    But, according to Monier-Williams Sanskrit Dictionary, the word is also found in Atharva Veda Samhita:
| द्वि-ज b mfn. twice-born |
| द्वि-ज m. a man of any one of the first 3 classes, any Āryan, (esp.) a Brāhman (re-born through investiture with the sacred thread, cf. उप-नयन), AV.; Mn.; MBh. &c.
    
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    Shankara Ruiz (Spain) |