Agarchand Nahta Abhinandan Granth Part 2

Author(s): Dashrath Sharma
Publisher: Agarchand Nahta Abhinandan Granth Prakashan Samiti

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13. The Hiranyaretases have three rși-pravaras-- Vaišvāmitra, Hiranya and Retas.
17. The Suvarṇaretases also have three rși-pravaras-Vaiśvāmitra, Sauvarņa and Retas. 2
15. The Kapotaretases have three rşi-pravaras-Vaišvă mitra Kāpota and Retas.3
16. The Ghịta-kauśikas also have three rși-pravaras-Vaiśvāmitra. Ghārta and Kausika.
17. The Sathara-mātharas also have three si-pravaras-Vaiśvāmitra, Sathara and Mathara.5
18. The Sahula.mahulas have three rși-pravaras-Vaiśvāmitra, Sāhula and Māhula.
This is the picture of the pravara system of the Vaiśvāmitra in the Sūtra literature. The Sätras refer to Vaiśvāmitra in other connections also. In the AgGS, he is mentioned among the Saptarsis, the others being Jamadagni, Bharadvāja, Gautama, Atri, Vasiștha and Kaśyapa. The context is the Adhyāya-Utsarjanam (leave after completion of studies). In this rite seats are prepared by the student for the above-metioned Rşis?
The BauŚS refers to the selection of the priests. It enjoins that Adhvaryu priest should be an Angiras, the Brahmā priest should be a Vásiştha, the Hot! should be a Vaiśvāmitra and the Udgāt? should be an Ayāsya. Again, in the context of the Rși-stoma, Viśvāmitra is connected with the seventeenth stoma.'
It has been prescribed in the Sūtra texts that a person desiring victory over enemies should perform the rite known as “Sanjaya' of Viśvāmitra.10, It has been stated in the TNB (XXI. 12. 1-4) that Viśvāmitra performed this four-day rite, defeated his rivals with its grace and got kingdom.
The Vaiss mentions that four chief priests should be descendants of Vasiştha, Bhỉgu, Angiras and Ayāsya respectively, remaining twelve priests can
1. Ibid, XII. 14. 6. 2. Mass XI. 8. 5. 17. 3. Ibid. XI. 8. 5. 18. 4. Ibid. XI. 8. 5. 19. 5. Ibid. XI. 8. 5. 20. 6. Ibid. XI, 8. 5. 31. 7. Ibid. XI. 8. 5. 22, 23. For the exhaustive list of the pravaras of the Viśvamitras,
see OHN BROUGH, Early Brahmanical System of Gotra and Pravara. Camb
ridge, 1953, p. 35. 8. ĀgGS. 1. 2. 2. 9. Bauss. II. 3. 10. Ibid XVIII. 22.
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