Parashara
Parashara ( Sanskrit पराशर parāśara m. ) Was a Vedic Rishi and father of Vyasa . He is considered to be the author of several hymns in the Rig Veda and the Vishnu Purana .
life and work
According to Nirukta, a script of the grammarist Yaska , Parashara was the son of Vasishtha , but in the Mahabharata and Vishnu Purana he appears as the son of Saktris and grandson of Vasishtha. It is said that he was a disciple of Kapila , wrote some hymns of the Rig Veda and received the Vishnu Purana from Pulastya . He also wrote about the Dharmashastra , and texts by him are often quoted in works of law. During a brief encounter with Satyavati , he became the father of Vyasa.
literature
- JAB van Buitenen, Mahabharata vols. 1-5, Chicago 1973, pp. 133-34
- Parashara in: John Dowson: A classical dictionary of Hindu mythology and religion, geography, history and literature. London, 1879, pp. 229-30
Individual evidence
- ^ Dowson (1879), p. 229