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Posted: 2 years ago

Would this mean, son of Princess of Kashi?

1215019 thumbnail
Posted: 2 years ago

No, nothing to do with Kāśi -> Kāśya/Kāśyā.

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Posted: 2 years ago

Son or Rishi Kashyap

1215019 thumbnail
Posted: 2 years ago

Getting closer ... but a character who is Kaśyapa's son is called Kāśyapi, not Kāśyapeya.

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Posted: 2 years ago

Kāśyapeya১ (“the son of Kaśyapa”) = Garuḍa: I, ১২৪৭.

Kāśyapeya২ (“descendant of Kaśyapa”) = Dāruka: VII, ৬৩৫২.

Kāśyapeya, pl. (ºāḥ) (“the sons of Kaśyapa”) = the Ādityas: XIII, ৭০৯৪ (Aº).

1215019 thumbnail
Posted: 2 years ago

Kāśyapeya doesn't occur for Garuḍa in Ādiparvan or for the Ādityas in Anuśāsanaparvan of the critical edition.


Dāruka is the character that I meant. He is called Kāśyapeya at Droṇaparvan 122.52, implying his descent from a woman called Kāśyapī. Dāruka belonged to the sūta caste, supposedly the progeny of a kṣatriya father and a brāhmaṇī mother, and Kāśyapī would be a brāhmaṇī's name.


While Mahābhārata doesn't tell us about Dāruka's origin, there are Jain stories of Vasudeva's adventures (Jinasena's Harivaṃśapurāṇa and Hemacandra's Triṣaṣṭiśalākāpuruṣacaritra) in which Vasudeva marries a mantri's daughter named Padmāvatī in Campā (where Mahābhārata locates the sūta country), and their sons are chariot-drivers including Dāruka.


88. Who is called Kṛṣṇasārathi?

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Posted: 2 years ago

Yes, I got a lot of Jain and Buddhist Stories with "Kasyapeya" search. 👍🏼



Arjuna is also known as Kṛṣṇasārathi - which means whose Sarathi is Krishna?

Edited by DelusionsOfNeha - 2 years ago
1215019 thumbnail
Posted: 2 years ago

I was trying to be tricky with Kṛṣṇasārathi. Reading it as Kṛṣṇasya sārathiḥ = Dāruka is intuitive, but the correct answer in the Mahābhārata text is indeed Kṛṣṇo yasya sārathiḥ = Arjuna.


89. Whose name is Bhūridakṣiṇa?

1215019 thumbnail
Posted: 2 years ago

Correct! Bhūridakṣiṇa is a word used to describe many characters, such as Yudhiṣṭhira repeatedly, but it is a personal name of Bhūriśravas.


90. Which warrior was called Gautama?

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Posted: 2 years ago

I will take a guess without checking anything


Kripa

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