Vena
mythological figure · 3 works · 10 mentions · 10 anchored passages
Veṇa · the seer · the seer Vena
in the texts
Rigveda
A mythic name given to the sun at its birth, guardian of ordinances.
from them the sun, the guardian of ordinances, was born as Vena.
Bṛhaspati sacrifices, and Veṇa with the bulls, with many-desired bulls.
Indra produced one portion, the Sun another, and from Vena they fashioned a third by their own power.
Atharvaveda (Paippalāda)
Legendary Vedic seer said to have beheld the supreme cosmic footstep in the mystical hymn on ṛta.
The seer (Vena) beheld that supreme footstep where the All becomes a single nest.
Brahman, born first in the east, the seer Vena illumined it beyond the limits with brilliant light.
Manusmṛti
A king cited as ruined due to lack of humility.
Vena was ruined by lack of humility, and so was king Nahusha, and Sudas, the son of Pijavana, and Sumukha and Nimi.
it is said to have been introduced for men also while Vena was ruling the kingdom.
From that time onwards, he who, out of delusion, appoints a woman whose husband is dead for the sake of offspring, him the virtuous condemn.