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Daksha
Sign in to saveDaksha ( ,) is a Hindu god whose role underwent a significant transformation from Vedic to Itihasa-Puranic mythology. In the Rigveda, Daksha is an aditya and is associated with priestly skills.
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- God of ritual skill
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- File:Daksha two depictions.jpg
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- Two depiction of Daksha in Puranic tradition One with ordinary human features (left) and another with a goat face (right)
- Deity.consort
- Itihasa-Puranic: Prasuti and Asikni
- Deity.parents
- Vedic: Aditi ---- Itihasa-Puranic: Brahma
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- hindu
- Deity.affiliation
- Vedic: Adityas ---- Itihasa-Puranic: Prajapati, Manasaputra
- Deity.texts
- Rigveda, Brahmanas, Taittiriya Samhita, Ramayana, Mahabharata, Purana
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12 sectionsContents
- Etymology and textual history
- Legends
- Birth
- Consorts and children
- Sons
- Daughters
- Cursing Chandra
- Daksha Yajna
- See also
- References
- Explanatory notes
- External links
Daksha ( ,) is a Hindu god whose role underwent a significant transformation from Vedic to Itihasa-Puranic mythology. In the Rigveda, Daksha is an aditya and is associated with priestly skills.
In the epics and Puranic scriptures, he is a son of the creator-god Brahma and one of the Prajapati, the agents of creation, as well as a divine king-rishi. He is the father of many children, who became the progenitors of various creatures. According to one legend, a resentful Daksha conducted a yajna (fire-sacrifice), and deliberately did not invite his youngest daughter Sati and her husband Shiva. In the Linga Purana, for insulting Shiva during this event, which caused Sati to self-immolate in fury, he was beheaded by Virabhadra, a fearsome form of Shiva. He was later resurrected with the head of a goat. Many Puranas state that Daksha was reborn to Prachetas in another Manvantara (age of Manu).