Kanva
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Kanva or Kanwa (
Saptarishis).[1]
Kanva had a son Medhatithi.[4][5] Kanva is also mentioned in Mahabharata as the step-father of Shakuntala.
- Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of a founder of a Vedic shakha of the Shukla Yajur Veda, and hence the name of that theological branch of Hinduism, the Kanva Shakha.[6][7]
- Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of several princes and founders of dynasties and several authors.[citation needed]
- The Kanvas (Karnesh) are the descendants of king Vasudeva Kanva (1st century BCE).[8]
- The Kanvas are also a class of spirit, against whom hymn 2.25 of the Atharva Veda is used as a charm.[citation needed]
References
- ^ ISBN 81-246-0108-9. Archived(PDF) from the original on 19 May 2020.
- ISBN 3-11-013805-0.
- ^ ISBN 978-81-208-1486-8., a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.
- ^ a b Muir, John (1872). Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age (second ed.). London: Trübner. pp. 234–236.
- ^ ISBN 978-81-208-0639-9.
- ^ For a brief summary of the shakhas as given in Shaunaka's Caraṇa-vyūha see: Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, p. 1062, right column.
- ^ Dowson 2000, p. 297
- ISBN 978-81-269-0027-5.
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