The Arctic Home in the Vedas c13.s5.9

c13.s5.9

Bṛihaspati, the first-born sacrificer, is described as seven-mouthed or saptâsya in IV, 50, 4, and the same verse occurs in the Atharva Veda (XX, 88, 4). But in the Atharva Veda IV, 6, 1, the first Brâhmaṇa Bṛihaspati is said to be dashâsya, or ten-mouthed, and dasha-shîrsha, or ten-headed. Seven heads of the Brâhmaṇa are not expressly mentioned in the Rig-Veda, but in X, 67, 1, “our father,” meaning the father of the Aṅgirases, is said to have acquired seven-headed (*sapta-shīrṣṇī*) devotion or intelligence (*dhī*).