m.Name of a ṛṣi-, author of the hymns of , of a code of laws, and of a treatise on astronomy (he is said by some to have been born from brahmā-'s mouth, and to have been the husband of smṛti-, of śraddhā-, of two daughters of maitreya-, of several daughters of dakṣa-, etc.;he is considered as one of the seven ṛṣi-s of the first manvantara-, as a prajāpati-, as a teacher of the brahmavidyā-, which he had learnt from satyavāha-, a descendant of bharadvāja-, etc. Among his sons, the chief is agni-, others are saṃvarta-, utathya-, and bṛhaspati-;among his daughters are mentioned sinīvālī-, kuhū-, rākā-, anumati-, and akūpārā-;but the ṛca-s or Vedic hymns, the manes of haviṣmat-, and mankind itself are styled his offspring. In astronomy he is the planet Jupiter, and a star in Ursa Major)
The Añgirases appear in the Rigveda as semi- mythical beings, and no really historical character can be assigned even to those passages which recognize a father of the race, Añgiras. Later, however, there were definite families of Añgirases, to whose ritual practices {ayana, dvirātra) references are made.
noun (masculine) a star in Ursa Major (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
descendants of Aṅgiras or of Agni (mostly personifications of luminous objects) (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of Agni (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
name of a Ṛṣi (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
priests who by using the magical formulas of those hymns protect the sacrifice against the effects of inauspicious accidents. [weitere Stellen IIJ 42.1999:158 HF (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
the hymns of the Atharvaveda (Monier-Williams, Sir M. (1988))
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