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Asamati
A king praised in Rigveda 10.60.1-5, in whose service Ikshvaku flourishes. In the Brihaddevata he dismisses his priests the Gaupayanas for two sorcerers and is shamed when the brothers praise him.
Sources: Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer; The Brhad-devata attributed to Saunaka, ed. and tr. A. A. Macdonell (Harvard Oriental Series 6) · see Asamati's web