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Grtsamada is a
rishiA rishi denotes a poet-sage through whom the Vedic hymns flowed, credited also as divine scribes. According to post-Vedic tradition the rishi is a "seer" or "shaman" to whom the Vedas were "originally revealed" through states of higher consciousness...
, credited with most of
Mandala 2The second Mandala of the Rigveda has 43 hymns, mainly to Agni and Indra chiefly attributed to the Rishi The second Mandala of the [[Rigveda]] has 43 hymns, mainly to [[Agni]] and [[Indra]] chiefly attributed to the Rishi ...
of the
RigvedaThe Rigveda is an ancient Indian sacred collection of Vedic Sanskrit hymns. It is counted among the four canonical sacred texts of Hinduism known as the Vedas...
(36 out of 43, hymns 27-29 being attributed to his son Kurma and 4-7 to Somahuti). Grtsamada was a son of Shunahotra of the family of
AngirasAngiras is a Vedic rishi who, along with sage Atharvan, is credited to have formulated most of the fourth Veda called Atharvaveda. He is also mentioned in the other three Vedas...
, but by Indra's will he was transferred to the Bhrigu family.
In the plural, the name refers to the clan of Grtsamada, so used in RV 2.4, 19, 39, 41.