གནས་འཇོག་

གནས་འཇོག (Wyl. gnas 'jog ) Pron.: né jok

• Skt. वसिष्ठः, vasiṣṭha, Pron.: vasishtha. From Sanskrit: superl. fr. 1. | and under | most excellent, best, richest | wrongly written | called Nandinī, offspring of Surabhi, which by granting all desires made him, as his name implies, master of every | or desirable object | he was the typical representative of Brāhmanical rank, and the legends of his conflict with Viśvā-mitra, who raised himself from the kingly or Kshatriya to the Brāhmanical class, were probably founded on the actual struggles which took place between the Brāhmans and Kshatriyas | a great many hymns of the | are ascribed to these two great rivals | those of the seventh Maṇḍala, besides some others, being attributed to Vasishṭha, while those of the third Maṇḍala are assigned to Viśvā-mitra | in one of Vasishṭha's hymns he is represented as king Su-dās's family priest, an office to which Viśvā-mitra also aspired | in another hymn Vasishṭha claims to have been inspired by Varuṇa, and in another | he is called the son of the Apsaras Urvaśī by Mitra and Varuṇa, whence his patronymic Maitrāvaruṇi | in Manu i, 35 | N. of the author of a law-book and other works (prob. intended to be ascribed to the Vedic Ṛishi above ) | the family of Vasishṭha | N. of Sāmans | N. of an Anuvāka | on | flesh [Mahavyutpatti] [Sanskrit] MVP MW