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'''Gritsamada''' ({{Lang-sa|गृत्समद}}, [[International Alphabet of Sanskrit Transliteration|IAST]]: ''Gṛtsamada/Gṛtsamāda'') was a Rigvedic sage. Most of [[Mandala 2|Mandala II]] of the [[Rigveda]] is attributed to him. He was the son of Śunahotra Āṅgirasa and the adopted son of Śunaka Bhārgava.<ref name=":0" /> According to Witzel, Somāhuti Bhārgava is a descendant of Gritsamada,<ref>{{Cite book|last=Witzel|first=Michael|title=The Indo-Aryans of Ancient South Asia: Language, Material Culture and Ethnicity|publisher=De Gruyter|year=1995|editor-last=Erdosy|editor-first=George|pages=204|chapter=Ṛgvedic history: poets, chieftains and polities}}</ref> however according to Jamison and Brereton he belongs to the Bhṛgu lineage of Gṛtsamada's adopted father Śunaka. The signature line of the Gritsamadas in the Rigveda was "May we speak loftily at the ritual distribution, in possession of good heroes." Gritsamada was known for connecting the deeds of [[Indra]] to the actions of the ritual.<ref name=":0">{{cite book|author=Stephanie Jamison|title=The Rigveda –– Earliest Religious Poetry of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LTRDwAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0190633394|page=399}}</ref>

In the ''[[Bṛhaddevatā]]'', Gritsamada is stated to have become as large and strong as Indra through penances, which led to the [[Daitya|daityas]] Dhuni and Cumiri to mistake him for such. When Gritsamada realized their hostile intentions, he praised Indra with hymns so that Indra could defeat them.<ref name=":1" /> According to the late medieval commentator [[Sayana]], Gritsamada was captured by [[Asura|asuras]] and was released on Indra's command and by his was made the son of Śunaka Bhārgava.<ref>{{cite thesis |last= Rahurkar|first= V. G.|date= 1964|title= The seers of the Ṛgveda|type= |chapter= |publisher= University of Poona|docket= |oclc= |url= |access-date= |pages= i-6}}</ref><ref name=":1">{{Cite book|last=Stutley|first=Margaret|url=https://www.google.com/books/edition/A_Dictionary_of_Hinduism/tQWQDwAAQBAJ?hl=en&gbpv=1&dq=G%E1%B9%9Btsamada&pg=PT202&printsec=frontcover|title=A Dictionary of Hinduism: Its Mythology, Folklore and Development 1500 B.C.-A.D. 1500|last2=Stutley|first2=James|publisher=Taylor & Francis|year=2019}}</ref> In a myth in the [[Mahabharata|''Mahābhārata'']], [[Vasishtha]] curses Gritsamada to be a wild animal as a result of Gritsamada faltering in the recitation of formulae in a [[Yajna|sacrifice]]. However, [[Shiva|Śiva]] restores him to his normal form and grants him immortality.<ref name=":1" />

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