घोरआङ्गिरस (ghoraAGgirasa)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishGhora Āṅgirasa is the name of a mythical teacher in the
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa^1 and the Chāndogya Upaniṣad, ^2 where he
is teacher of the strange Kṛṣṇa Devakīputra. That the name
is certainly a mere figment is shown by the fact that this
‘dread descendant of the Aṅgirases’ has a counterpart in
Bhiṣaj Ātharvaṇa, ^3 ‘the healing descendant of the Atharvans, ’
while in the Rigveda Sūtras^4 the Atharvāṇo vedaḥ is connected
with bheṣajam and the Āṅgiraso vedaḥ with ghoram. He is
accordingly a personification of the dark side of the practice
of the Atharvaveda.^5 He is also mentioned in the Aśvamedha
section of the Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā.^6
1) xxx. 6. Cf. Āśvalāyana Śrauta
Sütra, xii. 10.
2) iii. 17, 6.
3) Weber, Indische Studien, 3, 459.
4) Āśvalāyana Śrauta Sūtra, x. 7
Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xvi. 2
Journal of the American Oriental Society.
17, 181.
5) Bloomfield, Hymns of the Atharva-
veda, xx, xxi, xxxviii
Atharvaveda, 8,
23
Macdonell, Sanskrit Literature, 189,
190
Hillebrandt, Vedische Mythologie, 2,
160, n. 4.
6) i. 1.
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