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Kratu

Kratu

c. 1450 BCE · Pushkar

Legendary primordial sage with no historical existence; a mind-born son of Brahmā and Prajāpati in Puranic cosmology. The date is a conventional early-stratum placement carrying no historical claim.

Kratu is a legendary primordial sage counted among the mind-born sons (manasaputras) of Brahmā and the Prajāpatis, and is traditionally numbered among the Saptarishis (seven great sages) of the Svāyambhuva Manvantara. He appears mainly in the genealogical and cosmological material of the epics and Purāṇas. He is a mythological figure with no historical basis.

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Pushkar

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In Pushkar at the same time

Pulaha, Pulastya, Marīci

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In the same place & time

Sages whose lives overlapped with Kratu’s in the same cities, drawn from their recorded journeys.

In the same tradition

Pulaha, Pulastya, Marīci

The world in their lifetime

Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Kratu’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.

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