Jamadagni
c. 1300 BCE · Indore
Legendary Vedic seer with no historical dates. The conventional placement ties him to the late Rigvedic stratum. As father of Paraśurāma he sits at the seam of Vedic and epic legend. The year is purely conventional and historicity is uncertain.
Jamadagni is a legendary seer counted among the Saptarṣi and a descendant of Bhṛgu (in genealogies, the son of Ṛcīka and Satyavatī). He is best known in epic and Puranic legend as the husband of Reṇukā and father of Paraśurāma, and for the story of the wish-granting cow Kāmadhenu (also called Surabhi), whose seizure by King Kārtavīrya Arjuna's men leads to Jamadagni's death and Paraśurāma's revenge. His life is preserved only in scripture and myth, with no independent historical record; any date attached to him is conventional rather than documented.
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- The Seventy Elders of Israel (the Sanhedrin appointed by Moshe)· 1310 BCE–1240 BCE
- Yehoshua bin Nun (Joshua son of Nun)· 1355 BCE–1245 BCE
- Pinchas ben Elazar HaKohen· 1280 BCE–1180 BCE
- Moshe ben Amram (Moses our Teacher)· 1393 BCE–1273 BCE
- Aharon ben Amram (the first Kohen Gadol)· 1396 BCE–1273 BCE
- Miriam bat Amram (the Prophetess)· 1399 BCE–1273 BCE
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