Ajīgarta Sauyavasa. — This is the name given to the father of Śunaḥśepa in the famous legend of the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa,1 perhaps invented for the occasion, as Weber2 suggests. [Footnote] 1) vii. 15; 17. Cf. Śāṅkhāyana Srauta Sūtra, xv. 19. [Footnote] 2) Indische Studien, 1, 460; Roth, St. Petersburg Dictionary, s.v.