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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

(I)--a class of gods resident in Bhuvarloka फलकम्:F1:  वा. १०१. ३०.फलकम्:/F specially created by भृगु to put down the प्रमथ and other गणस् in the sacrifice of दक्ष. Followers of Indra; फलकम्:F2:  भा. IV. 4. ३३; VI. 7. 2; १०. १७.फलकम्:/F of चाक्षुष epoch. फलकम्:F3:  M. 9. २४.फलकम्:/F [page१-269+ २९]

(II)--gods of the Vaivasvata epoch, came to द्वारका with other gods to ask कृष्ण to go back to Vai- कुन्ठ्२अ. भा. VIII. १३. 4; XI. 6. 2.

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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

ṚBHUS :

1) General information. Ṛbhus are a group of divine be- ings who attained divinity by performing tapas. Mahā- bhārata, Anuśāsana Parva, Chapter 137, Verse 25 says that even other gods worship the Ṛbhus.

2) Who were Ṛbhus? Aṅgiras, the son of Brahmā had a son named Sudhanvā. Sudhanvā had three children, Ṛbhukṣan, Vibhvan and Vāja. These three persons form the Ṛbhus as mentioned in Ṛgveda, 1st Maṇḍala, 16th Anuvāka, 111th Sūkta.

3) Ṛbhus and Miracles.

(i) Long ago, a cow belonging to a Ṛṣi died. Its calf began to cry. The Ṛṣi took pity on it and prayed to the Ṛbhus. They made a cow and covered it with the skin of the dead cow and placed it in front of the calf. Be- cause of its likeness to its mother, the calf believed it to be its mother.

(ii) Ṛbhus restored their parents who had become old, to youth. (Ṛgveda, 1st Maṇḍala, 16th Anuvāka. 11th Sūkta).

(iii) Ṛgveda says that it was the Ṛbhus who made Indra's horses, the chariot of the Aśvinīs and Bṛhaspati's cow.


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*6th word in left half of page 647 (+offset) in original book.