Gaya
mythological figure · 3 works · 3 mentions · 3 anchored passages
also in the atlas: Gayā the place
Gaya the Gandharva · the sacrificer
spoken of as
1 expressionGaya the Gandharva1 mention
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda) (Sanskrit)
The śālālava plant, the alluring one, brought from forest to forest — by which Gaya the Gandharva drew the Apsarases to himself — by that same I draw that one to me, from the range of Death, from the farthest distance.
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
A Gandharva figure whose mythic use of a plant to draw the Apsarases is invoked as precedent.
The śālālava plant, the alluring one, brought from forest to forest — by which Gaya the Gandharva drew the Apsarases to himself — by that same I draw that one to me, from the range of Death, from the farthest distance.
Rigveda
Mythic figure used in simile for Indra's strength.
For we know you, O Indra, winner of wealth, splitting even the firm things asunder, as one who cleaves like Gaya.
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
Legendary sacrificer after whom Gayā is named, credited with a sacred verse on filial duty to ancestors.
"For it is heard, dear one, that long ago a glorious sacred text was sung by the sacrificer Gaya himself at Gayā, concerning the fathers: