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गयप्लात (gayaplAta)

 
Vedic Reference
English
2. Gaya Plāta (‘son of Plati’) is referred to in the Rigveda, ^1
two hymns of which he clearly claims to have composed, and
which are attributed to him in the Sarvānukramaṇī and the
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa.^2 In the Atharvaveda^3 he appears with
Asita and Kaśyapa as a half-mythical magician.^4
1) x. 63, 17
64, 17 (as son of Plati).
2) v. 2.
3) i. 14, 4. Cf. also the Khila after
Rv. v. 51, 15
Indische Studien, 3,
214.
4) Bloomfield, American Journal of
Philology, 17, 403.
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 133
Weber, Indische Studien,
3, 460.