Dakṣa
deity figure · 6 works · 20 mentions · 21 anchored passages
Dakṣa the mental one · the Prajāpati Dakṣa · unfailing Dakṣa
in the texts
Rigveda
A god personifying capability/skill, named once among the Viśvedevas.
Them we call with the ancient proclamation — Bhaga, Mitra, Aditi, Dakṣa the unfailing, Aryamā, Varuṇa, Soma, the two Aśvins;
Dakṣa, the highest, knows the days;
These hymns, flowing like ghee, I offer with my tongue as an oblation to the Ādityas, the eternal kings.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Progenitor figure named as father of Jayā and Suprabhā, the mothers of the weapon-sons.
Jayā and Suprabhā, the two slender-waisted daughters of Dakṣa — they gave birth to one hundred supremely radiant weapons and missiles.
"The Prajāpati Dakṣa had sixty daughters — so we have heard — all renowned, O Rāma of great glory.
"Dakṣa, Vivasvān, and then Ariṣṭanemi, O Rāghava;
Vīramitrodaya
A jurist quoted for the rule on decreasing and increasing tithis of three and two muhūrtas.
Because of the presence of the word 'api' (even) in the verse of Dakṣa:
> The bathing that is at every dawn, at twilight, when the sun has risen, / > and at a lunar and solar eclipse, that is equal to a Prājāpatya (*Prājāpatyena* (प्राजापत्येन)).
From this statement of Dakṣa, a gradation of fruit is stated.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Vedic deity personifying ritual/creative skill, summoned among the grace-granting gods.
Bhaga, Mitra, Aditi, unfailing Dakṣa, Aryaman, Varuṇa, Soma, the two Aśvins — may the auspicious Sarasvatī grant us bliss.
May Dakṣa the mental one taste you, and Svarbhānu the Marutic one.
Parāśara Smṛti
Sage listed among authors of dharma texts.
those of Atri, Viṣṇu, Saṃvarta, and Dakṣa, as well as Aṅgiras;
Yājñavalkya Smṛti
Mythological sage/patriarch credited with composing the Brahmagītikā, one of the liberative songs listed.
the Ṛggāthā, the Pāṇikā, and the Brahmagītikā composed by Dakṣa— to sing this, and by its practice, is called liberation.