Aṅgirases
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Aṅgiras · Aṅgiras Fathers · Aṅgiras-like · descendants of the Aṅgirases · the Aṅgiras · the Aṅgirases
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Rigveda
Ancient clan of priestly seers closely associated with the origin and cult of Agni.
You cleft the cow-pen for the Aṅgiras;
You, O Agni, most foremost of the Aṅgirases, as a seer you adorn the ordinance of the gods.
You, O Agni, became the first among the Aṅgirases — a seer, a god, an auspicious friend of the gods.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
The Aṅgirases, a class of ancient sage-priests, identified as the eyes of the cosmic Pillar/Brahman.
Whose head is Vaiśvānara, whose eyes the Aṅgirases became;
He whose in-breath and out-breath is the wind, whose eyes became the Aṅgirases — who made the directions his cognizing faculty — to that greatest Brahman, homage.
] May he not be released from the nooses of the Aṅgirases.
Sāmaveda
A clan of ancient poet-sages associated with Agni (whose epithet 'Aṅgiras' derives from them), described ascending to heaven.
From here they rose up, climbing the back of heaven, climbing upward.
With what praise, O Agni Aṅgiras, O grandson of vigour, does one extol you?
He rose up, drove toward the Aṅgirases, making manifest those who were hidden.