Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.315

c5.315

DEVABHĀGAŚRAUTĀRṢA. A ṛṣi, the son of Śruta and learned in yajñas. He had accurate knowledge as to which parts of the yajña-cow should be distributed to whom, and till death he did not impart this knowledge to anyone. But, sometime afterwards a non-human individual taught the subject to Girija, son of Babhru. (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa).