Vācaspati
deity figure · 3 works · 5 mentions · 8 anchored passages
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Lord of speech invoked to strengthen the reciter's body, mind, and renown.
Those three-times-seven who go about bearing all forms — may Vācaspati place their strengths into my body today.
May Vācaspati hold [them] fast within me;
Come near to us, O Vācaspati, together with the divine mind.
Vīramitrodaya
Vācaspati, a commentator whose several positions on śrāddha timing and interpretation are cited and consistently refuted in this passage.
As for what is said here by Vācaspati, that when the month is unknown, the rite should not be performed because there is no basis, that should be disregarded, because the previously cited verses of Bṛhaspati, etc.
" As for what is said here by Vācaspati, that the verse of Laghu Hārīta applies to an obstruction of the death-day other than impurity, that is not proper, because the prohibition of a time that is not obtained, "and never any other," would be inconsistent.
And so, what is said by Vācaspati—that in the case of the impurity of a wound, the rite of the preceding day is a subordinate element, and due to the doubt about the healing on the preceding day, the performance of the principal rite is not certain, and on the succeeding day, when it is certain, the time in the form of the forenoon is absent, and thus it is superseded, like the invocation of Jyā i …
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Lord of speech, invoked first in Sītā's prayer for the truth of Hanūmān's words.
'Homage to Vācaspati, to the thunderbolt-wielding Indra, to the Self-born Brahmā, and to Fire — what this forest-dweller has spoken here before me, may that be true and not otherwise.