Ayāsya Āṅgirasa. — This sage appears to be mentioned in
two passages of the Rigveda,
1 and the Anukramaṇī ascribes to
him several hymns of the Rigveda (ix. 44-46; x. 67; 68). In
the Brāhmaṇa tradition he was Udgātṛ at the Rājasūya or
Royal Inauguration Sacrifice, at which Śunaḥśepa was to have
been slain, and his Udgītha (Sāmaveda chant) is referred to
elsewhere.
3 He is also referred to several times as a ritual
2) Aitareya Brāhmaṇa, vii. 16.
authority.
4 In the Vaṃśas, or Genealogies of the Bṛhadāraṇ-
yaka Upaniṣad,
5 he is named as the pupil of Ābhūti Tvāṣṭra.
[Footnote] 1) x. 67, 1; 108, 8. Perhaps x. 92.
15 also refers to him, but not i. 62, 7;
x. 138, 4.
[Footnote] 3) Jaiminīya Upaniṣad Brāhmaṇa,
ii. 7, 2. 6; 8, 3.
Cf. Chāndogya
Upaniṣad, i. 2, 12.
[Footnote] 4) Pañcaviṃśa Brāhmaṇa, xiv. 3, 22;
xvi. 12, 4; xi. 8, 10; Bṛhadāraṇyaka
Upaniṣad, i. 3, 8. 19. 24; Kauṣītaki
Brāhmaṇa, xxx. 6.
[Footnote] 5) ii. 6, 3; iv. 6, 3 (in both recensions).
Cf. Ludwig, Translation of the Rig-
veda, 3, 136; Hillebrandt,
Vedische Mythologie, 2, 159; Weber,
Indische Studien, 1, 255, n.; Pischel,
Vedische Studien, 3, 204.