Gods and Saints of the Gnat Brahniaija. 51 



'• The seers did not see Indra face to fece, pratyaksam. Vasistha 

 desired, ' How may I see Indra face to face ? ' He discovered (his) 

 Nihava Saman and then verily he saw Indra face to face. This 

 ( Indra I said to that (seer), ' I will teach yon a Brahmana (secret 

 wisdom, like Upanisad), so that the Bharatas, having you as their 

 chaplain, may be multiplied ; but {atJm) do not describe me (as 

 revealed in the lauds) to the other seers ' {uia ' nyebJiyah . . ma 

 pravocali). He told him these laud-sharers and then verily the 

 Bharatas, having- Vasistha as their chaplain, were multiplied," 15. 

 5. 24. This story is told in almost the same words in TS. .8. 5. 2, 

 where also are found the descriptive epithets which in PB. appear 

 at 1. 9. 1, f. See too VS. 15. 6. 



There is a Saman called "dear to Indra," 12. 12. 9-10. Through 

 it "Vasistha gained the love (premavam) of Indra ;i and he gains 

 the love of the gods who praises with this Vasistha Saman." Com- 

 pare 15. 3. 33 and 11. 8. 14, where is mentioned the Vasistha (Brah- 

 niaiiaj or the Vasistha Saman, with which " Vasistha Vrdlava, 

 praising Indra, straightway saw the heavenly world." In 7. 7. 

 17—18, it is said that when the gods went to heaven and the Rath- 

 antara metre, because of its greatness (the laud in 19) could not, 

 Vasistha by removing the (mahinian) greatness and praising with 

 it went to heaven. When his son was slain, Vasistha thought himself 

 deticient (liJ)ia, lowered) but by seing RV. 7. 32. 26, Samans, and 

 a " four-night rite " he was enabled to have children and cattle and 

 "arrive at the top," 4. 7. 3; 8. 2. 4; 19. 3. 8; 21. 11. 2. The over- 

 coming of the Saudasas by V. hataputra, of TS. 7. 4. 7. 1, and TB. 

 is not mentioned (.Saudanti, above.) A member of the Vasistha 

 family is Gaurlviti Saktya, but, though mentioned three times, he 

 is praised only as having had unusual insight and success (having 

 offered a meat-cake at the Yavyavati river), 11. 5. 14; 12. 13. 10; 

 25. 7. 2 (cf. SB. 12. 8. 3. 7 ; AB. 3. 19. 4). 



Other saints dear to Indra were the Vaikhanasas. In 14. 4. 7 is 

 narrated their tragic tale : " The Vaikhanasas verily were seers dear 



supposed to be the origin of his name, Dvigat, since " he returned (to 

 tliis world) and went again to heaven. His Saman therefore bestows 

 two Avishes." The Saman of Asita Daivala (epic !) grants even three 

 Avishes, since he " saw the sight of the three worlds " {dri^fim apnsyat)^ 14. 

 11. 19 (cf. 15. 5. 27, dsitain brahinanani). 



* This rather unusual word is used TS. (7. 5. 8. 1 and) 5. 5. 8. 2 of 

 gaining the love of Prajiipati , explaining the preceding prajapater 

 hvdayend ^pikaksam pretty upatiKthate^ Avhich plu'ase in PB. 5. 4. 4 is follo-o'ed 

 by jydistJiyam jayanti. 



