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रजनकोणेय (rajanakoNeya)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Rajana Koṇeya, or Kauṇeya, is the name of a teacher
mentioned in the Yajurveda Saṃhitās.^1 It is said in the
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā^2 that Kratujit Jānaki successfully sacrificed
for him when he desired to obtain eyesight. He is also
mentioned in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, ^3 where the name of
his son, Ugradeva Rājani, also occurs.^4
1) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, ii. 3, 8, 1
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xxvii. 2 (Indische
Studien, 3, 474).
2) xi. 1 (Indische Studien, 3, 474).
3) xiii. 4, 11. Cf. Hopkins, Transac-
tions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 15, 58, n. 2.
4) He was a leper, and the Rajanī is
used against leprosy, Bloomfield, Hymns
of the Atharvaveda, 266.