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गौरिवीतिशाक्त्य (gaurivItizAktya)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Gauri-vīti Śāktya (‘descendant of Śakti’) or Gaurīviti, as
the name is also spelt, ^1 is the Ṛṣi, or Seer, of a hymn of the
Rigveda, ^2 and is frequently mentioned in the Brāhmaṇas.^3
According to the Jaiminīya Brāhmaṇa, ^4 he was Prastotṛ at the
Sattra, or sacrificial session, celebrated by the Vibhindukīyas
and mentioned in that Brāhmaṇa.
1) Satapatha Brāhmaṇa, xii. 8, 3, 7
Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xi. 5
xii. 13
xxv. 7.
2) v. 29, 11.
3) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, iii. 19
viii. 2
and see n. 1.
4) ii. 233 (Journal of the American
Oriental Society, 18, 38).
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 126
Oldenberg, Zeitschrift der
Deutschen Morgenländischen Gesellschaft,
42, 215.