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मधुछन्दस् (madhuchandas)

 
Vedic Reference
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Madhu-chandas, the reputed author of the first ten hymns of
the first Maṇḍala of the Rigveda, is mentioned as a Ṛṣi in the
Kauṣītaki Brāhmaṇa^1 and the Aitareya Āraṇyaka.^2 In the
Aitareya Brāhmaṇa^3 he counts as the fifty-first son of Viśvā-
mitra, and his Praüga (hymn at the morning service) is
mentioned in the Śatapatha Brāhmaṇa.^4
1) xxviii. 2.
2) i. 1, 3.
3) vii. 17, 7
18, 1
cf. Śāṅkhāyana Śrauta Sūtra, xv. 26, 1 et seq. Cf. Keith,
Aitareya Āraṇyaka, 167.
4) xiii. 5, 1, 8.