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153: 49: 2440: 380:, Prajapati emanated from Purusha (cosmic spirit) and Prajapati co-creates the world with Vac. It also includes the "golden cosmic egg" mythology, wherein Prajapati is stated to be born from a golden egg in primeval sea after the egg was incubated for a year. His sounds became the sky, the earth and the seasons. When he inhaled, he created the devas and devis, and light. When he exhaled, he created the asuras and asuris, and darkness. Then, together with the Vac, he and she created all beings and universe. In Chapter 10 of the 3746: 3756: 3735: 2186: 144:) is a compound of "praja" (creation, procreative powers) and "pati" (lord, master). The term means "lord of creatures", or "lord of all born beings". In the later Vedic texts, Prajapati is a distinct Vedic deity, but whose significance diminishes. Later, the term is synonymous with other gods, particularly Brahma. Still later, the term evolves to mean any divine, semi-divine or human sages who create something new. 3766: 2178: 35: 1703:, pages 3, 279-281; Quote: "Even though theoretically the whole of vedic corpus is accepted as revealed truth , in reality it is the Upanishads that have continued to influence the life and thought of the various religious traditions that we have come to call Hindu. Upanishads are the scriptures par excellence of Hinduism". 464:
The self (atman) that is free from evils, free from old age and death, free from sorrow, free from hunger and thirst; the self whose desires and intentions are real – that is the self that you should try to discover, that is the self that you should seek to perceive. When someone discovers that self
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Prajapati appears in early Upanishads, among the most influential texts in Hinduism. He is described in the Upanishads in diverse ways. For example, in different Upanishads, he is presented as the personification of creative power after Brahman, the same as the wandering eternal soul, as symbolism
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is declared to be a Prajapati who creates many males and females, and imbues them with desire and anger, the former to drive them into reproducing themselves and the latter to be being like gods and goddesses. Other chapters of the epics and Puranas declare
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seizes these beings within his and her womb, but because these beings are created by Prajapati and Vac, they desire to live like him and her and Prajapati and Vac kill Mrtyu and creates the universe with releasing all living creatures in his and her womb.
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In the medieval era texts of Hinduism, Prajapati refers to legendary agents of creation, working as gods or sages, who appear in every cycle of creation-maintenance-destruction. Their numbers vary between seven, ten, sixteen or twenty-one at times.
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In Chandogya Upanishad 1.2.1, Prajapati appears as the creator of all devas and devis and asuras and asuris: "The gods and goddesses and the demons and demonesses are both children of Prajapati, yet they fought among themselves."
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Prajapati is the God of Universe, Fire, the Sun, the Creator God, etc. He is also identified with various mythical progenitors, especially (Manusmriti 1.34) the ten gords of created beings are first created by
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Prajapati is a form of the creator-god Brahma, but the name is also the name of many different gods, in many Hindu scriptures, ranging from the creator god Brahma to being same as one of the following deities:
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The origins of Prajapati are unclear. He appears late in the Vedic layer of texts, and the hymns that mention him provide different cosmological theories in different chapters. He is missing from the
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to kill Prajapati for doing incest with Ushas and before Prajapati mates with Ushas, Rudra drives Prajapati away. Then Rudra kills Prajapati and Ushas runs away and Prajapati is ressurected. The
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His role varies within the Vedic texts such as being one who created heaven and earth, all of waters and beings, the creator of the universe, the creator of gods and goddesses, the creator of
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texts, then declined to name a group of creators in the creation process. In some Brahmana texts, his role is glorious since he co-creates with the powers of the creator goddess
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equivalent of the Hindu god Brahma's Prajapati form in several ways: he is the first god born from a cosmic egg, he is the creator of the universe, and in the figure of
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include Prajapati as among the deities invoked during wedding ceremonies and prayed to for blessings of prosperous progeny, and harmony between husband and wife.
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who was in the form of a doe, to produce other animals. The gods and goddesses are horrified by this incest, and joined forces and created the angry destructive
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lives with him for 100 years, studying the art and duties of being the "father-like king of gods and goddesses" and is a king of the gods and goddesses.
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According to Robert Graves, the name of /PRA-JĀ-pati/ ('progeny-potentate') is etymologically equivalent to that of the oracular god Phanes at
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tells a different myth, wherebin Prajapati, having created the gods and goddesses, turns into a stag and approaches his daughter with Vac,
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and all deities. Agni, Surya, Chandra, Vayu, Ushas and all deities released their energies and created the universe.
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and the genre of Puranas call various gods and sages as Prajapati. Some illustrations, states Roshen Dalal, include
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Prajapati is described in many ways in Hindu texts, both in the Vedas and in the post-Vedic texts. These range from
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for unmanifest obscure first born, as manifest procreative sexual powers, the knower particularly of
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and perceives it, he obtains all the worlds, and all his desires are fulfilled, so said Prajapati.
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as Prajapati-Brahman, and Brahman is the primordial matter that made Prajapati.
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A Statue of Brahma as Prajapati at Daksha Prajapati Temple, Banapura, Odisha
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as Prajapati with the same iconographical features of Brahma, a statue from
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is a great rishi. As one of the Prajapatis, he creates animals and plants.
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Bringing the Gods to Mind: Mantra and Ritual in Early Indian Sacrifice
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A list of twenty one includes found in the Mahabharata includes
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devāsurā ha vai yatra saṃyetire ubhaye prājāpatyāstaddha
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A similarity between Prajapati (and related figures in
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Index

Pashupati
Prajapati (disambiguation)

Brahma
Tamil Nadu

Sanskrit
lit.
IAST
Vedic
Hinduism
Brahma
Vishvakarma
Agni
Indra
Daksha
Hindu cosmology
Brahman
Sanskrit

Samhita
Brahmana
Jan Gonda
Savitr
Brahmanas
Hindu mythology
Phanes
Ancient Greek
Greco-Roman mythology
Classical mythology

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