Kaśyapa

deity Hindu single tradition · 15

Kaśyapa is the consort of Diti. He was deeply absorbed in his day’s devotional worship when Diti approached him to beget a son for her. He reluctantly yielded to her carnal desires at dusk, an inauspicious time.

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When

First attested
1500 BCE
Attested period
-1500 – 2020
Historical notes
Mentioned in the Bhagavata Purana.

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Sources

Source passages

“Diti was one of the wives of Kaśyapa. She had no children while the other wives of Kaśyapa had children. Jealousy and grief rankled in her mind. One day she approached Kaśyapa and pressed him to beget a son for her.”

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