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देवातिथिकाण्व (devAtithikANva)

 
Vedic Reference
English
Devātithi Kāṇva (‘descendant of Kaṇva’) is mentioned in
the Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa^1 as the seer of a Sāman (chant) by
which he turned pumpkins into cows for himself and his son
when they were starving in the desert, whither they had been
driven by rivals. He is also the reputed author of a hymn
of the Rigveda.^2
1) ix. 2, 19.
2) viii. 4.
Cf. Hopkins, Transactions of the Con-
necticut Academy of Arts and Sciences, 15,
61.