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Budila Ashvatarashvi

A teacher named in the Brihadaranyaka Upanishad (5.14.8) who spoke as one who knew the Gayatri, became an elephant carrying King Janaka, and explained that he had not known the verse's mouth, which is fire.

Sources: The Upanishads, tr. F. Max Muller (Sacred Books of the East 1 and 15) · see Budila Ashvatarashvi's web

Relations 1

Budila Ashvatarashvi tested by

Janaka of Videha (King) · The verse of Savitr (the Gayatri)
Janaka asks Budila why a knower of the Gayatri became an elephant.

Stories 1

The verse of Savitr (the Gayatri)
Legend · as half knew the verse and became an elephant · 7 tellings

Cited

The Upanishads, tr. F. Max Muller (Sacred Books of the East 1 and 15) § brihadaranyaka.5.14.8 Primary text (translation)