Footnote: वेधा इति मेधाविनाम (निघ० ३.१५ ) . Hence it has been translated as most wise, besides the best among the knowers of all sciences. वि-धा - धारण पोषणयोः विधात्रो वेध च (उपा० ४.२२५ ) Prof. Wilson has translated as most wise following Sayanacharya who has interpreted it rightly as बेधा इति मेधाविनाम अतिशयेन मेधाविन् । Griffith has also translated it as 'O wisest' and yet they think quite erroneously that this epithet is applicable to the material fire, which is absurd. Rishi Dayananda was therefore right in taking the word Agni used here, not for material fire but for a learned leader.अग-गतौsगतेस्त्रयोऽर्था: ज्ञानं गमनं प्राप्तिश्च अग्नि: कस्मात् अग्रणीर्भवति (निरुक्ते) It is wrong on the part of most of the Western translators like Wilson, Griffith and others to take अङ्गिरा as the name of a particular Rishi forgetting the principles of the Vedic terminology. Sayanacharya has himself interpreted the word derivatively as अतिशयेन अंगनादि गुण मुक्त though he has also committed the mistake of taking it as alternative as यद् वा अंगिरसां वरिष्ठ: which is opposed to the principle of Vedic terminology explained by him in his introduction to the commentary of the Rigveda. The word अंगिरा is derived from अगि-गतौ which means ज्ञाव गमन प्राप्ति therefore taking the first meaning of ज्ञान or knowledge it means most learned as interpreted by Rishi Dayananda Sarasvati. In the Vedic Lexicon-Nighantu 5-5 it is stated अंगिरस इति पदनाम (निध० ५.५ ) so it अंगिरस्तम certainly means the most learned person. It is absurd to use superlative degree with a proper noun.