Narada
Nārada’s stanzas on the son (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa VII.13)
Traditional attribution
Nārada’s stanzas on the son (Aitareya Brāhmaṇa VII.13)
ऐतरेयब्राह्मण ७.१३ (नारदगाथाः)
They answer the childless king’s question about the fruit of having a son: the father pays a debt in him and gains immortality, the son is like a well-provisioned boat that carries him across, the wife is truly a wife when the husband is reborn in her. The stanzas, which were recited at the royal consecration (rājasūya), are an early document of the Vedic ideology of descent and open the story of Śunaḥśepa.
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Authorship note
Ten stanzas (gāthā) that the Aitareya Brāhmaṇa places in Nārada’s mouth in reply to King Hariścandra. An ascribed discourse within an anonymous ritual text.
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Narada
The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda
The Conscious LibraryThe Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda
1863
Translation: Martin Haug
Bombay, 1863; dominio público. Reimpresión de Pāṇini Office, Allahabad, 1922.
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Sources
- Haug, Martin (trad.). The Aitareya Brahmanam of the Rigveda. Bombay, 1863; reimpr. Allahabad: Pāṇini Office, 1922. VII.13–14 (Hariścandra y Nārada).
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