A History of Ancient Sanskrit Literature, so far as it illustrates the Primitive Religion of the Brahmans c8.s2.57

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to take him, surrounded the sacrificial inclosure. Indra, however, perceived it, and taking the guise of the Rishi, he went away. The Asuras seeing the sacrificer again, seized Śaunahotra, taking him for Indra. He saw the god that is to be worshipped, and saying, ‘I am not Indra, there he is, ye fools, not I,’ he was released by the Asuras. Indra called and spake to him: ‘Because thou delightest in praising, therefore thou art called Gṛitsamada, O Rishi; thy hymn will be called by the name of *Indrasya indriyam*, the might of Indra. And thou, being born in the race of Bhṛigu, shalt be Śaunaka, the descendant of Śunaka, and thou shalt see again the second Maṇḍala, together with that hymn.’ He, the Muni Gṛitsamada, was born again, as commanded by Indra. It was he who saw the great second Maṇḍala of the Rig-veda as it was revealed to him together with the hymn Śajanîya; it was he, the great Rishi, to whom at the twelve years’ sacrifice, Ugraśravas, the son of Romaharshaṇa, the pupil of Vyâsa, recited, in the midst of the sacrifice, the story of the Mahâbhârata, together with the tale of the Harivaṅśa, a story to be learnt from Vyâsa alone, full of every kind of excellence, dear to Hari, sweet to hear, endowed with great blessing. It was he who was the lord of the sages, dwelling in the Naimishîya forest; he, who to the King Śatânîka, the son of Janamejaya, brought the laws of Vishṇu, which declare the powers of Hari. That Śaunaka, celebrated among the Rishis as the glorious, having seen the second Maṇḍala, and heard the collection of the Mahâbhârata, being also the propagator of the laws of Vishṇu, the great boat on the ocean of existence, was looked upon by the great Rishis as the only vessel in which worshippers might get over the Bahvṛicha, with its twenty-one Śâkhâs, like one who had crossed the Rig-veda. There was one Śâkhâ of Śâkala, another of Bâshkala: taking these two Sanhitâs, and the twenty-one Brâhmaṇas, the Aitareyaka, and completing it with others, Śaunaka, revered by numbers of great Ṛishis, composed the first Kalpa-sûtra.”