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Kakshivat

Also called: Kakshivan, Kakshivat Pajriya

Seer of the Pajra family, poet of the long Ashvin hymns Rigveda 1.116 and 1.117, to whom the Ashvins gave wisdom and renewed youth; father of Ghosha in the Brihaddevata.

Sources: Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer; The Brhad-devata attributed to Saunaka, ed. and tr. A. A. Macdonell (Harvard Oriental Series 6) · see Kakshivat's web

Relations 2

Kakshivat devotee of

The Ashvins (God)
Poet of RV 1.116-117; the twins gave him wisdom.

Kakshivat parent of

Ghosha (Sage)
The Brihaddevata calls her Kakshivat's daughter.

Stories 1

Ghosha calls the Ashvins
Legend · as her father (Brihaddevata) · 4 tellings

Cited

Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.116.7 Primary text (translation)
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 1.117.6 Primary text (translation)
Hymns of the Rigveda, tr. R. T. H. Griffith (1896), hymns read for the Vedic layer § 10.143.1 Primary text (translation)
The Brhad-devata attributed to Saunaka, ed. and tr. A. A. Macdonell (Harvard Oriental Series 6) § 7.42-44 Primary text (translation)