YayatiYayāti (ययाति), is a king in Hindu tradition. He is described to be a Chandravamsha king. He is regarded to be the progenitor of the races of the Yadavas and the Pandavas. He is considered in some texts to the son of King Nahusha, and his wife, Ashokasundari, daughter of Shiva and Parvati; however, early sources state that Virajas, daughter of Ajyapas, was the mother of Yayati. He had five brothers: Yati, Samyati, Ayati, Viyati, and Kriti. Yayāti had conquered the whole world and was the Chakravarti ("Universal Monarch" or "World Emperor").
PrithuPrithu (Sanskrit: पृथु, Pṛthu, lit. "large, great, important, abundant") is a sovereign (chakravarti), featured in the Puranas. According to Hinduism, he is an avatar (incarnation) of the preserver god—Vishnu. He is also called Prithu, Prithi and Prithvi Vainya, literally, "Prithu — the son of Vena". Prithu is "celebrated as the first consecrated king, from whom the earth received her (Sanskrit) name, Prithvi." He is mainly associated with the legend of his chasing the earth goddess, Prithvi, who fled in the form of a cow and eventually agreed to yield her milk as the world's grain and vegetation.
SmritiSmriti (sanskrit IAST : smṛti ; devanāgarī : स्मृति : « mémoire », « souvenir » ; pali : sati « attention ») est le nom donné à un ensemble de textes appartenant à la tradition ancienne de l'hindouisme, mais dont l'autorité dérive de celle de la śruti (ou textes révélés). On parle aussi de tradition smārta. Il désigne aussi la mémoire dans les textes philosophiques. Dans le bouddhisme, son équivalent pali signifie « attention », notamment dans la méditation.
BhāsaBhāsa is one of the earliest and most celebrated Indian playwrights in Sanskrit, predating Kalidasa. His name was already well-known by the 1st century BCE and he belongs to the late-Mauryan (322-184 BCE) period at the earliest, but the thirteen plays attached to his name are commonly dated closer to the first or second century CE. His plays had been lost for centuries until the manuscripts were rediscovered in 1913 by the Indian scholar Ganapati Shastri.
Puranic chronologyThe Puranic chronology is a timeline of Hindu history based on the Mahabharata, the Ramayana, and the Puranas. Two central dates are the Mahabharata War, and the start of the Kali Yuga. The Puranic chronology is referred to by proponents of Indigenous Aryans to propose an earlier dating of the Vedic period, and the spread of Indo-European languages out of India, arguing that "the Indian civilization must be viewed as an unbroken tradition that goes back to the earliest period of the Sindhu-Sarasvati (or Indus) tradition (7000 or 8000 BCE).
IkshvakuIkshvaku ou Okkaka, « canne à sucre », (devanagari : इक्ष्वाकु) est selon la mythologie et la tradition historique indienne le fils du premier homme Manu et le petit-fils de Surya/Vaivasvata, dieu du soleil et fondateur de la dynastie Suryavansha de l’époque védique. Elle prend après lui le nom de dynastie Ikshvaku, capitale Ayodhya/Saketa. Des souverains de l’Inde du nord ancienne, comme les rois de Kosala ou les chefs Shakya (clan du Bouddha) prétendaient s'y rattacher. Râma et Bhagiratha y auraient appartenu.
ShukraShukra (शुक्र, IAST: ) is a Sanskrit word that means "clear" or "bright". It also has other meanings, such as the name of an ancient lineage of sages who counselled the asuras in Vedic mythology. In medieval mythology and Hindu astrology, the term refers to the planet Venus, one of the Navagrahas. In Hinduism, Shukra is one of the sons of Bhrigu, of the third Manu, one of the saptarishis. He was the guru of Daityas and Asuras, and is also referred to as Shukracharya or Asuracharya in various Hindu texts.
