Vedic Mythology c5.s8.t1.9

c5.s8.t1.9

The Ṛbhus also rejuvenated their parents (1, 20⁴. 111¹; 4, 35⁵), who were frail and lay like decaying posts (1, 110⁸; 4, 33 2. 3). They made the two who were old young again (1, 161 3. 7). When in the brief enumeration of their feats already referred to (4, 34⁹), they are simply said to have fashioned their parents, the same feat is doubtless meant. It was their laudable fame among the gods, that they made their frail and very old parents young again so as to walk (4, 36³). In the first verse of the same hymn it is said to have been the great proclamation of their divine power, that they made heaven and earth to thrive. The latter thus seem to be intended by their parents.