Dear Sri mahavishNu sharman: Namaste. There was a deviation from the main thread from yajur-vedic legends to sanskrit grammatical syntax. Rest assured that I have no intentions to re-write samskrta vyAkaraNam and I very well know the differences between tenuis, tenuis aspirata, media, media aspirata and nasalis forms of labial phonemes, despite the large gap (more than a decade) between now and my formal sanskrit education. Having said this, "trishtuB" (or its variants trStuB, triStubh etc.) are what I encountered in my madhyandina as well as kaNva shatapatha brAhmaNa texts. Moreover, this is the term that I consistently saw in Max Mueller's translation of upanishads & portions of Rg mandalas, Buhler's translation of dharma sUtras, A.B. Keith's translation of black-yajus samhita and various European indoligists' books & articles. I am willing to agree that I am wrong along with all the European indologists. I also forwarded my doubt to my acquaintance who is a trivedi, vedic scholar and sanskrit scholar (recently participated in a sOma yAga in Maharashtra). I am reproducing portion of his reply. Inferences can be drawn at one's conveniences. "...Correct nominative singular form that you will find in any dictionary or vedic text is triShTubh. You may find the form triSTup only in sandhi as triSTupchandas- this is the form in the vedic anukramaNikas. You may encounter a variant sandhi in AV chandas tarpaNaM mantra eg: triShTubgAyatryuShNikanuShtubjagati ... So your guy is wrong..." Best wishes & regards, KK
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