Parashara

Parashara

IAST|Parāśara "crusher, destroyer" is the name of several figures in Hindu tradition:
*a son of Vasishtha, or a son of Shakti and grandson of Vasishtha, according to the Mahabharata the father of Vyasa, and recorded as the author of RV 1.65-73 and part of RV 9.97.
*the author of a code of laws
*name of the authors of several writers on medicine and astrology
**the "IAST|Bṛhat Parāśara Horāśāstra " (BPHS, "hora" is the sanskrit word from which horoscope is derived, dating to the 7th to 8th centuries CE
** the "Vrksayurveda" ("the science of life of trees"), one of the earliest texts on botany. [http://www.infinityfoundation.com/mandala/t_es/t_es_tiwar_botany_frameset.htm]
*Parashara Bhattar, the son of Kurattazhvan (Kuresa), by Ramanujacharya, a disciple of Yamunacharya (12th century).

References

*Monier-Williams, "Sanskrit Dictionary" (1899).


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