#RgVeda and we want to be careful about whether this degrades everything:
93-94. (?) The Pitį¹s named ÄjyapÄs are the sons born of Pulaha who was born of Kardama, the PrajÄpati. They reside in those worlds which can go wherever one desires. They move about in the sky in various forms and shapes. The groups of VaiÅyas who seek benefit worship these Pitį¹s in ÅrÄddha.
Their mental daughter is well known by the name VirajÄ. She was the chaste wife of Nahuį¹£a and the mother of YayÄti.
The Pitį¹s named SukÄlas are the sons of the noble-souled Vasiį¹£į¹ha, son of Hiraį¹yagarbha (BrahmÄ). The ÅÅ«dras worship them.
Those worlds where they stay in the #heaven are #MÄnasa by name. Their mental daughter is NarmadÄ, the most excellent river.
She sanctifies the living beings as she proceeds along the Dakį¹£iį¹Äpatha (southern tract and territory). She was the #wife of #Purukutsa and the #mother of #Trasaddasyu.
It is after accepting these that Manu the lord of the Manvantara initiates the ÅrÄddha rites everywhere.
It's of course a little weird, hard to tell who is intended to be human. Maybe weirder to think of Arya kings as "wedded" to the southern #Narmada #River.
#Rudra is reborn in each of these #Manvantaras, and #Agni and the #Pitrs are the only thing that stays the same.
Individuals change names, classes change jobs, for example Sadhyas are now Adityas, everything else is a flux besides Agni and Pitrs.
So those are two branches that use his two wives, ##Svaha and Svadha, for the #ending of #mantras. They are his #power or, i. e. Svaha carries mantras to #Devas, Svadha to the Pitrs, Sraddha Rite, which upon examination is about #Time rather than #ancestors. Agni shows manifested units of time, the #day, #year, etc., whereas Pitrs are much like #Father-Time, duration in the abstract.
Most streams of Purana have dissipated all this, such as:
SÄdhya (ą¤øą¤¾ą¤§ą„ą¤Æ) refers to a group of deities that was once worshipped in ancient #Kashmir (KaÅmÄ«ra) according to the NÄ«lamatapurÄį¹a.āVarious groups of the deities like #Ädityas, #Vasus, #SÄdhyas, #ViÅvedevas and #Maruts have their place in the #pantheon of the #NÄ«lamata but nothing significant is said about them.
Or they may be found shuffled in to #Shiva #Ganas that have nothing to do with this.
Where discussed, they may include:
Arthasiddhi
BrahmÄį¹įøa-purÄį¹a II. 24. 27; 38. 3.
and importantly:
Viį¹£į¹u, NÄrÄyaį¹a, lying in sleep in the vast mass of water.*
live in Bhuvarloka; NÄrÄyaį¹a, their overlord
in the [Åatapatha-brÄhmaį¹a] their world is said to be above the sphere of the gods; according to YÄska [Nirukta, by YÄska xii, 41] their locality is the Bhuvarloka or middle region between the #earth and #sun;
in the later mythology they seem to be superseded by the Siddhas
The easily-copied rosters of Sadhyas are:
Manas, Mantį¹, PrÄį¹a, Nara, PÄna, Vinirbhaya, Naya, Daį¹Åa, NÄrÄyaį¹a, Vį¹į¹£a, Prabhu
Mana, Anumanta, PrÄį¹a, Nara, ApÄna, VÄ«ryavÄn, VÄ«ti, Naya, Haya, Haį¹sa, NÄrÄyaį¹a, Vibhu, and Prabhu
The latter, from #Brihadaranyaka #Upanishad, is in the context that they take birth at will, consciously. The same group of entities changes names and kingdoms; the twelve #souls have #continuity. And so they remember that they once were, on the ideal or ideational plane:
PrÄį¹a, ApÄna, UdÄna, SamÄna, VyÄna, Cakį¹£us, Årotram, Rasa, GhrÄį¹a, SparÅa, Buddhi and Manas.
There for example is #Mind's Eye, #Caksus, which is unlike #Indra, because #ordinary #vision requires a physical #eyeball and a #psychological response to stimulus, may be easily tricked. This is i#ncorporeal vision that represents #Perfect #Sight.
"Later #mythology" means the Sadhyas appear in #Mahabharata numerous times, but, barely have any references in Bhagavata Purana.
" #Narayana" is in #Rg-Veda as the author of Purusha Sukta. That's it