Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4710

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.4710

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VIŚVAKA. A hermit of the period of Ṛgveda. Once Viṣṇapū the son of this hermit was lost. The father praised the Aśvinidevas, who showed him his son as one shows a lost cow. (Ṛgveda, Maṇḍala 1, Anuvāka 8, Sūkta 116).

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Ṛgvedasaṃhitā — Sanskrit