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तुरकावषेय (turakAvaSeya)

 
Vedic Reference
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Tura Kāvaṣeya is mentioned in the Vaṃśa (list of teachers)
at the end of the tenth book of the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa^1 as
the source of the doctrine set forth in that book, and as
separated, in the succession of teachers, from Śāṇḍilya by
Yajñavacas and Kuśri. In the same Brāhmaṇa^2 he is quoted
by Śāṇḍilya as having erected a fire-altar on the Kārotī. In
the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa^3 he appears as a Purohita, or ‘domestic
priest, ’ of Janamejaya Pārikṣita, whom he consecrated king.
In the Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad^4 and a Khila^5 he appears as
an ancient sage. Oldenberg, ^6 no doubt rightly, assigns him
to the end of the Vedic period. He is probably^7 identical with
Tura, the deva-muni, ‘saint of the gods, ’ who is mentioned in
the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa.^8
1) x. 6, 5, 9.
2) ix. 5, 2, 15.
3) iv. 27
vii. 34
viii. 21.
4) vi. 5, 4 (Kāṇva, not in Mādhyaṃ-
dina).
5) i. 9, 6
Scheftelowitz, Die Apokryphen
des Ṛgveda, 65, 190.
6) Zeitschrift der Deutschen Morgen-
ländischen Gesellschaft, 42, 239.
7) So the St. Petersburg Dictionary,
s.v.
8) xxv. 14, 5. See Hopkins, Transac-
tions of the Connecticut Academy of Arts
and Sciences, 15, 68.
Cf. Weber, Indische Studien, 1, 203, n.
Indian Literature, 120, 131
Eggeling,
Sacred Books of the East, 43, xviii.