64 E. IV. Hopkins, 



yonder, having made it a white horse. On receiving it he was 

 prostrated, but he saw (discovered) the Ayas^ani (Samans) and by 

 means of them he recovered (" put himseh' together " ; hence a white 

 horse is the fee for the chaunter). These Ayasyani Samans are 

 medicinal and purificatory at the sadyahkrJ ceremony. But (16. 

 14. 2) the Aiigirasas by means of a new ceremony, the Angirasam 

 anukrJ [ekahd) subsequently caught up with the Adityas. " He who 

 gets left, luna, and is secondary, as it were, anujavara iva, should 

 sacrifice with this rite. He gets the advantage over his predecessors " 

 (as in the further verbal parallel Ijelow at 20. 11. 3-4). Compare too 

 .'^B. 3. 5. 1. 13-19. for a longer version of this same story and the 

 gilt of the white horse. Here (as expressh^ emphasized in the SB., 

 the Angirasas served the Adityas), though an Angiras, or Angirasa, 

 Ayasya serves the Adityas. As an Angirasa he appears in what 

 seems to be the end of the same tale at 11. 8. 10: " Ayas3'a the 

 Angirasa ate the food of the Adityas as they were initiated. 

 .Sorrow attacked him. He practised austerity; he discovered the 

 two Ayasye (Samans) and therewith overcame his sorrow " (the same 

 in 14. 3. 22, except for plural Samani, and "he was prostrated and 

 put himself together," as above). ^ 



In another passage the Angirasas appear as howling dervishes. 

 The}' had a Saman called the "United Yell of the Angirasas," An- 

 girasam saiiikrosa, and " with it the Angirasas all yelled together 

 and so got to heaven," 12. 3. 23 (compare " Indra's Yell,'" above, 

 p. 54). Again, as a group, the}' use the Abhlka (" nearby ") Saman 

 and so (after previous sorrow) they recovered, for through this 

 Saman " it rained (wealth) upon them," 15. 9. 9. 



There is a group of passages on the Angirasas and Adityas, more 

 or less alike in that they connect the Adityas with their proper 

 number, which is twenty-one, on account of the sun 2 being the 

 " twent3'-first," in the familiar but ever amazing confusion of space 

 and time which results in the conglomeration of " twelve months, 

 five seasons, three worlds, and the svm as the twenty-first," 20. 5. 

 3; 21. 4. 7; 2.3. 17. 2; .SB. 13. 1. 7. 3 ; TS. 5. 1. 10. 3; Ch. Up. 2. 

 10. 5, etc. For this reason, when the Adityas and Angirasas cele- 

 brate the rite of thirty-three nights, their respective shares in the 



^ In 21, this is introdviced as dyasyam tiras'clnam'dhanmn. Ayasj^a is a 

 ]ioi-therner in JUB. 2. 7. 2—8, liis name meaning "mouth," ib. 2. 11. 

 <S— 9 ; Cli. Uj). 1. 2. 12. An Angirasa is a son of the Angirasas. 



- The sun supports the ckai'iiisastoma., the talpa (couch) of the gods. 

 10. 1. 12 (but cf. also 28. 4. 5. without reference to "twenty-one"). 



