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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

Satvant is the name of a people who are stated in the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa to belong to the south. In the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa the defeat by Bharata of the Satvants, and his taking away the horse which they had prepared for an Aśvamedha (‘horse sacrifice’), are referred to: this reference clearly shows that in another passage of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa the text must be altered from satvanām to Satvatām, ‘of the Satvants,’ against whom it seems the Bharatas made regular raids. The name has also been found by the St. Petersburg Dictionary, Cowell, and Max Müller in the Kauṣītaki Upaniṣad, but it is certain that the reading there is not Satvan-Matsyeṣu, but sa-Vaśa-Matsyeṣu.