Vedic Index of Names and Subjects v1.c3.792

v1.c3.792

Asamāti Ratha-prauṣṭha.—The story of the quarrel between Asamāti, the Ikṣvāku prince of the Rathaprauṣṭha family, and his priests, the Gaupāyanas, is found only in the later Brāhmaṇas.¹ It appears to be based on a misreading of the Rigveda,² where *asamāti* is merely an adjective. The later story is that the king was induced to abandon his family priests by two Asuras, Kirāta and Ākuli, who by their magic compassed the death of Subandhu, one of the brother priests, and that the others revived him by the use of the hymns (Rigveda, x. 57-60).