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Dirghatapas (Dhanva, Dirghatamas)

Also called: Dirghatapa, Dirghatamas, Dirghatama, Dhanva

A king of Kashi of the line of Suhotra who, childless, did austerities for a son and received the ocean-born physician Abja as his child, the Dhanvantari of the second Dvapara. The Harivamsha calls him Dirghatapas (the Puranic Encyclopaedia also Dhanva), the Vishnu Purana Dirghatamas, the Bhagavata Dirghatama.

Sources: Harivamsha, Harivamsha Parva, chapter 29: the Kashi kings and the birth of Dhanvantari (English, harivamsam.arasan.info; Sanskrit with verse numbers, dvaipayana.net); The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror); Bhagavata Purana 9.17, The Dynasties of the Sons of Pururava (English translation, Vedabase); Puranic Encyclopaedia (Vettam Mani), entry Dhanvantari, on Wisdom Library · see Dirghatapas (Dhanva, Dirghatamas)'s web

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Dirghatapas (Dhanva, Dirghatamas) parent of

Dhanvantari (God) Vaishnava · The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
The ocean-born god is born as the childless king's son in the second Dvapara.

Stories 1

The physician who rose from the sea (Dhanvantari)
Legend · as the childless king of Kashi · 2 tellings

Cited

Harivamsha, Harivamsha Parva, chapter 29: the Kashi kings and the birth of Dhanvantari (English, harivamsam.arasan.info; Sanskrit with verse numbers, dvaipayana.net) § 22-26 Primary text (translation)
The Vishnu Purana, tr. H. H. Wilson (1840), Book IV chapter VIII: sons of Ayus, the kings of Kasi, former birth of Dhanwantari (sacred-texts, read on a mirror) Primary text (translation)
Bhagavata Purana 9.17, The Dynasties of the Sons of Pururava (English translation, Vedabase) § 4 Primary text (translation)
Puranic Encyclopaedia (Vettam Mani), entry Dhanvantari, on Wisdom Library Scholarly