Editing Vamana (section)

==== White Yajurveda: Vajasaneyi Samhita ====

{{blockquote|<poem>Homage to him with braided hair and to him with shaven
hair, homage! homage to the thousand-eyed and to him
with a hundred bows, homage!
To the mountain-haunter and to Sipivishta, homage!
To the most bountiful, armed with arrows, homage!

Homage to the short, and to the dwarf, homage, homage to
the great and to the adult, homage! Homage to the full-grown
and to the growing, to the foremost and to the first
be homage.

Homage to the swift, and to the active be homage, and to
the hasty and to the rapid mover be homage! Homage to
him who dwells in waves, and in still waters, to him who
dwells in rivers and on islands.</poem>|source=Vajasaneyi Samhita, translated by [[Ralph T.H. Griffith]] (1899), Book 16, Verses 29-31|author=|title=}}

In regard to the above quotation, Aiyangar states that long (i.e. including braided) hair indicates [[Muni (Saint)|Munis]], and shaven hair indicates 'an [[ascetic]] of the order of [[sannyasin]]'.<ref name=":14">{{Cite book|last=Narayan Aiyangar|url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.217324|title=Essays On Indo Aryan Mythology|date=1901|pages=217, 236, 257}}</ref> Roy argues that in 'the [[Shri Rudram|Satarudriya]] hymn of the [[Yajurveda]] [i.e. Vajasaneyi Samhita, Book 16, as quoted above], [[Rudra]] is referred to as ''vamana''. Rudra is said to preside over the [[Asterism (astronomy)|asterism]] of Ardra and may, therefore, be understood to denote the star'.<ref name=":15" />

However, the terms 'thousand-eyed' (i.e. [[Purusha]], see second account of Vamana in the [[Harivamsa]], below), 'mountain-haunter' (e.g. [[Rigveda]] 1.154, above), and 'Sipivishta'<ref>{{Cite web|url=http://www.maxgyan.com/hindi/sh/shipiviShT-meaning-in-english.html|title=Meaning of shipivishta in English - Shipivishta meaning|website=www.maxgyan.com|access-date=2020-03-15}}</ref><ref name=":16">{{Cite book|last=Muir|first=John|url=http://archive.org/details/originalsanskri02muirgoog|title=Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India (Vol. 4)|date=1873|publisher=Trübner|others=Harvard University|pages=64, 67, 87, 122|language=sa}}</ref> given in the above-quote all also apply to [[Vishnu]]. In addition, the [[Shatapatha Brahmana]] (attached to the [[Vajasaneyi Samhita]]), relates the legend of Vishnu as a Dwarf, not Rudra /[[Shiva]]. Regardless, in the [[Puranas]] there are legends of both Vishnu and Shiva incarnating as Brahmin-dwarfs, and the above-quoted hymn provides the essential ingredients: the [[Brahmin]], the [[Dwarfism|Dwarf]], and the concept of growth.