Gods and Saints of the Great Bi-rilunaiia. 57 



is the sou of Dadh3-ak, an Aiigirasa, and was rejuvenated ; the Cvav- 

 ana Saman iuipHes progeny (liecause the embryo falls out, cvavatc, 

 or because Prajapati makes rain fall), 13. 5. 12—13 (cf. 19. 3. 6); 

 14. 6. 10; 11. 8. 11. Dadhyak seems to be a substitute for Brhas- 

 pati, as chaplain of the gods, at 12. 8. 6 : Dadhyaii vu A//giraso 

 devaiiinii piirodhamya asTd, aniiatli vai bralnnanali purodha 'iiiiady- 

 asyd 'vanidhyai (RV. 1. 84. 13a). 



There were also Kutsa and Lusa, who invoked Indra, 9. 2. 22. 

 and Kutsa, when the god turned to him, bound him with a hundred 

 straps of leather (atiilayoh, too !j, till Lusa shamed him into freeing 

 himself. This story is to explain the origin of the Kautsa Soman. 

 with which (it is elsewhere said, 14. 11. 26) Kutsa discovered the 

 •' separate drinking " on the fast day (]:)efore the Soma-sacritice i 

 which he "pacified with a bag of i)randy,"' siimdrtiA 



Upagu, son of Susravas, is said to have been the chaplain of 

 Kutsa (here called the son ofUrui.- His story is this : Kutsa cursed 

 anyone who should revere Indra. Indra came to Susravas and said 

 •' Revere me ; for verily I am hungry.'' The saint revered him (that 

 is, gave him an offering of food). Indra, with the sacrificial cake 

 still in his hand, came to Kutsa and said, " He has revered me. 

 What has become of your curse ? " " Who reveres you ? " said he. 

 " Susravas," he replied. Then this Kutsa, son of Uru, took the 

 iidiinihara post and with it cut off the head of Upagu, son of 

 Susravas, even as Upagu was chaunting. Then said Susravas to Indra, 

 " Because of you has this sort of thing come upon me."' (But) Indra 

 revived this (Upagu) with the Sraisravasa Saman. That was what 

 he wished (as he uttered the Saman i, and this Srmian is a wish- 

 winner, 14. 6. 8. 



How much of this is sectarian hatred and how much reflects rank 

 infidelity cannot now be known. But there is no lack of cursing 

 in the Great Brahmana, some of which is obviously sectarian, as 

 when it is said that Lusakapi Khargali (s. of Khargala) cursed the im- 

 potent old Vratyas,^ whose Grhapati was Ku.sltaka, son of Sama.sravas, 

 saying, " Impure have they become ; the two deficient (smaller) 

 laudations have they employed. And because of this curse, none 



1 Kutsa is an Aiigirasa, author of EV. 1. 94 (BD. 3. 126). Cf. EV. 

 10. 38. .5; JB. 1. 228; and tlie discussion by Oertel, JAOS. 18. 31. See 

 also SB. 12. 7. 3. 4 and 12. 8. 1. 16, on brandy as a purification. 



^ Upngur vai Saies'ravasaU Kutsasyau 'ravasya purohita dslt^ etc. S on 

 Kutsa Aurava says •• a royal seer, son of Uru." 



^ Sai>ia>i'uamedh]-(l[ji) . . amivyaharat. 



