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वृशजान (vRzajAna)

 
Vedic Reference
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2. Vṛśa Jāna (‘descendant of Jana’) is the name of a famous
Purohita, who was unfortunate enough, while with his royal
master, Tryaruṇa, to see a boy killed by the chariot which the
king drove too fast. He thereupon recalled the boy to life.
The story is told briefly in the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, ^1 the
Śāṭyāyanaka, ^2 the Tāṇḍaka, ^3 was also narrated in the Bhāllavi
Brāhmaṇa, ^4 and is preserved in the Bṛhaddevatā, ^5 Sieg^6 has
endeavoured to trace the story in part in the Rigveda, ^7 but
there is a consensus of opinion^8 against the correctness of
such a view.
1) xiii. 3, 12.
2) See Sāyaṇa on Rv. v. 2, and the
Jaiminīya version in the Journal of the
American Oriental Society, 18, 20.
3) See Sāyaṇa, loc. cit.
4) Referred to in the Bṛhaddevatā,
v. 23, apparently as cited in the Nidāna.
The passage is not in the extant text
of the Nidāna Sūtra. See Sieg. Die
Sagenstoffe des Ṛgveda 65, n. 5.
5) v. 14 et seq., where see Macdonell's
notes.
6) Op, cit., 64-76.
7) v. 2.
8) Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 4, 324
Hillebrandt, Zeitschrift
der Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesell-
schaft, 33, 248 et seq.
Oldenberg, Sacred
Books of the East, 46, 366 et seq.
Ṛgveda-Noten, 1, 312. On the other
hand, Geldner, Festgruss an Roth, 192,
supports the tradition. Cf. Weber.
Indische Studien, 10, 32.