BRIHASPATI, or BRAHMANASPATI (" god of strength ")

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BRIHASPATI, or BRAHMANASPATI (" god of strength ") , a deity of importance in early Hindu

mythology

MYTHOLOGY

. In the Rigveda he is represented as the god of

prayer

PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
PRAYER,
BOOK
- BOOK
OF COMMON

, aiding

Indra

INDRA

in his

conquest

CONQUEST

of the

cloud

CLOUD (from the same root, if not the same word, as " clod," a word common in various forms to Teutonic languages for a mass or lump; it is first applied in the usual sense in the late 13th century; the Anglo-Saxon chid is only used in the sense of " a ma

-demon, and at times appears to be identified with Agni, god of

fire

FIRE (in O. Eng. f j'r; the word is common to West German languages, cf. Dutch vuur, Ger. Feuer; the pre-Teutonic form is seen in Sanskrit pu, pavaka, and Gr. irup; the ultimate origin is usually taken to be a root meaning to purify, cf. Lat. purus)

. He is the offspring of

Heaven

HEAVEN (0. Eng. hefen, heofon, heofone; this word appears in O.S. hevan; the High. Ger. word appears in Ger. Himmel, Dutch hemel; there does not seem to be any connexion between the two words, and the ultimate derivation of the word is unknown; the sugges

and Earth, the two worlds; is the inspirer of

prayer

PRAYER (from Lat. precari, entreat; Ital. pregaria, Fr. priere)
PRAYER,
BOOK
- BOOK
OF COMMON

and the guide and

protector

PROTECTOR

of the pious. He is pictured as having seven mouths, a hundred wings and horns and is armed with bow and arrows and an axe. He rides in a chariot

drawn

DRAWN

by red horses. In the later scriptures he is represented as a Rishi or seer.
See A. A. Macdonell, Vedic

Mythology

MYTHOLOGY

(Strassburg, 1897).

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