दध्यञ्चाथर्वण (dadhyaJcAtharvaNa)
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Vedic Reference
EnglishDadhyañc Ātharvaṇa is a purely mythical sage. In the
Rigveda^1 he is clearly a divinity of some kind, but in the later
Saṃhitās^2 and the Brāhmaṇas^3 he is metamorphosed into a
teacher. In the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmana^4 he is by oversight
called an Āṅgirasa.
1) i. 80, 16
84, 13, 14
116, 12
117, 22
119, 9, etc. See Macdonell,
Vedic Mythology, pp. 141, 142
Hille-
brandt, Vedische Mythologie, 1, 176.
2) Taittirīya Saṃhitā, v. 1, 4, 4
6,
6, 3
Kāṭhaka Saṃhitā, xix. 4.
3) Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa, iv. 1, 5, 18
vi. 4, 2, 3
xiv. 1, 1, 18. 20. 25
4, 13
Bṛhadāraṇyaka Upaniṣad, ii. 5, 22
iv. 5, 28, etc.
4) xii. 8, 6. So also Gopatha Brāh-
maṇa, i. 5, 21.
Cf. Bloomfield, Hymns of the Athar-
vaveda, xxxv
Atharvaveda, 23, 116, 118,
St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.
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