Tugra left Bhujyu in the cloud of waters as a dead man leaves his riches. The twins brought him back in 'animated' vessels that crossed the air unwetted; with winged things that flew three nights and three days they bore him to the far shore, in three cars, hundred-footed, with six horses; in the supportless ocean they carried him home in a ship of a hundred oars.
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.116.3-5; Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.117.14-15; Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.119.4
The twins made for Tugra's son a living ship with wings; four ships urged by the Ashvins saved him, cast headlong into darkness; the poet asks what tree it was, standing in the sea, to which he clung in supplication.
Four ships instead of three cars or one hundred-oared ship; adds the tree in the sea.
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.182.5-7
Wicked friends abandoned Bhujyu in mid-ocean (7.68.7); the twins raised him from the water with unflagging winged horses (7.69.7), bore him out of the sea with birds through dustless spaces (6.62.6).
Blames false friends, not the father.
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 7.68.7; Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 7.69.7; Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 6.62.6; Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 8.5.22
Sources: Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer
Chyavana is left behind on earth, decrepit and ghostlike.
The gods sacrifice without the Ashvins, who are held unclean for wandering among men as physicians.
Dadhyanch, son of Atharvan, knows the 'honey', the secret of making the sacrifice whole.
Ghosha has grown old unmarried in her father's house.
Dhaumya sends Upamanyu to tend the cows.
Prajapati gives his daughter Surya Savitri to King Soma; all the gods come as groomsmen.
Madri, childless, asks Pandu to ask Kunti to share her invocation.
At night, in Khela's battle, Vishpala's leg is cut off like a bird's wing.