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अयास्यआङ्गिरस (ayAsyaAGgirasa)

 
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Ayāsya Āṅgirasa. This sage appears to be mentioned in
two passages of the Rigveda, ^1 and the Anukramaṇī ascribes to
him several hymns of the Rigveda (ix. 44-46
x. 67
68). In
the Brāhmaṇa tradition he was Udgātṛ at the Rājasūya or
Royal Inauguration Sacrifice, at which Śunaḥśepa was to have
been slain, and his Udgītha (Sāmaveda chant) is referred to
elsewhere.^3 He is also referred to several times as a ritual
2) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vii. 16.
authority.^4 In the Vaṃśas, or Genealogies of the Bṛhadāraṇ-
yaka Upaniṣad, ^5 he is named as the pupil of Ābhūti Tvāṣṭra.
1) x. 67, 1
108, 8. Perhaps x. 92.
15 also refers to him, but not i. 62, 7
x. 138, 4.
3) Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa,
ii. 7, 2. 6
8, 3. Cf. Chāndogya
Upaniṣad, i. 2, 12.
4) Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 3, 22
xvi. 12, 4
xi. 8, 10
Bṛhadāraṇyaka
Upaniṣad, i. 3, 8. 19. 24
Kauṣītaki
Brāhmaṇa, xxx. 6.
5) ii. 6, 3
iv. 6, 3 (in both recensions).
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 136
Hillebrandt, Vedische
Mythologie, 2, 159
Weber, Indische
Studien, 1, 255, n.
Pischel, Vedische
Studien, 3, 204.