Aṅgirasas
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Aṅgirases · Āṅgirasas · Aṅgiras · the Aṅgirasas · Āṅgirasa · Angiras · Angirasas · Brahman-priests · the wise Āṅgirasa · Āṅgiras
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Rigveda
Ancient clan of seers/priests whose hymn-tradition and ritual days are invoked as precedent.
How does he who is swift become the worthy vessel of god-seeking men, hearing the hymns of the Aṅgirasas?
O Uṣas, come along the path — the share, the exhilaration of the Aṅgirasas, cattle-rich, with good hymns for us.
I, coming from among the Aṅgirasas, have come to the generous giver for twenty-five years.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Ancient priestly clan/ancestral seers associated with sacred fire and Soma, invoked as protective ancestors.
May the Aṅgirasas, the Soma-drinking ancestral fathers, let evil befall him who is the author of malicious will.
With the eighty-three chanters of Sāmans, with the Ādityas, the Vasus, and the Aṅgirases, may the merit of our fathers' sacrificial offerings and pious works protect us — I seize that man with divine consuming fire.
By means of you the Aṅgirasas came to know the world.