Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.23

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¹ The stories regarding the two hermits Dadhici and Dadhyaṅ in the Purāṇas are not very clear. In Mahā bhārata Dadhica is mentioned as the son of Bhṛgu, and in Ṛgveda it occurs that Dadhica was the son of Hermit Atharva who was the son of Vasiṣṭha. Moreover the story of Dadhyaṅ teaching the Aśvinīdevas the 'Madhuvidyā' is connected with Dadhici in some other purāṇas Some statements in the Ṛgveda make it difficult to assume that both Dadhyaṅ and Dadhici are one and the same person. So relying on the majority of statements in the various purāṇas this book has accepted the fact that these hermits are separate persons and that Dadhici was the son of Bhṛgu whereas the hermit who taught Madhuvidyā to the Aśvinīdevas was Dadhyaṅ.