Pramati
mythological figure · 2 works · 2 mentions · 3 anchored passages
in the texts
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Legendary figure of foresight/wisdom, invoked as a self-descriptive title by the reciter.
Whoever would rob me, thinking himself learned in sacred lore, though I am thus the knower, the Pramati among thinkers — let divine Indra, Varuṇa, Bṛhaspati, the lordly god, come upon him, and Death, so that he may not live to see the third dawn.
Rigveda
Personified figure of forethought/guidance named as a father figure.
the sacrifice is Manu, Pramati is our dear father — we choose Aditi, the all-encompassing.
The will-sustaining singer has always been sheltered by Indra alone — the good Pramati of the Soma-pressers;