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THE MITANNI NAME ŠATTIVAZA
In his book Die Arier im Vordern Orient - ein Mythos? M. Mayrhofer mentions (p. 25) a Mitanni royal name Sattiuaza- which, according to him, reflects IndoAryan *sati-vaja. "Kampfgüter erlangend'. In support of his view he mentions some Old Indo-Aryan compounds such as vāja-säni-, vāja-sá, vája-sati (also vájasya sati.),
in which we have a combination of vaja- and a derivative of san(i): sã. He also refers to the fact that in Old Indo-Aryan we often come across expressions where waja happens to be the object of san(i).
In all the attested compounds cited by Mayrhofer vája- occurs as the first member, not as the second. He is, therefore, compelled to interpret sati-vdja- as 'Kampfgüter erlangend', as though the compound were sanad-vaja-. The attested word vaja-sati-, however, he renders as 'das Erlangen von Gütern'.
The difficulty can be avoided if the Mitanni name is considered a reflex of Old Indo-Aryan *satya-vaha "that which carries truth, vehicle of truth, truthful one'. Satyavaha- (Bharadvaja-), as a proper name, is attested in the Mundaka Upanisad 1. 1. 3, Satyavahana in the late Rajatarangini 4. 100. As for the older period, we have a 'Textfigur' in which not satya-, but its near-synonym ṛtá- occurs, which lends itself very well to composition. As an expression for a 'hymn' we have rtasya váhas 'vehicle of truth' in the RV. 8. 6. 2 (Lüders, Varuna, p. 442). And the compound itself, aša-vazah, is attested in the Avesta (Y. 10. 14) as an epithet of Haoma.
Since, however, šarti- for lartija (cf. našattija-) constitutes a difficulty. *saptivaha- "one whose draught-animal is a horse' may be preferable. Cf. RV. săpti . . . vahato ratham (8.33.18), sảptayo . . . vahantu (1.47.8, cf. 1.85.6), etc. Late parallels would then be the adjectives saptivahana (Kalkipurana 3.8.1) and saptivahin (Paramanandakāvya p. 88 verse 4).
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In an article 'Lexicalische und grammatische Bemerkungen zu den Aśoka-Inschriften' contributed to Ludwig Alsdorf Memorial Volume, Thieme cites (p. 298) the follow. ing stanza from the Sarngadharapaddhati 3.2.9:
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