Nārada
c. 1450 BCE · Naimisharanya
Legendary divine sage with no historical existence; a mind-born son of Brahmā who travels the worlds in Puranic narrative. The date is a purely conventional placement at the early stratum and makes no historical claim.
Nārada is a legendary divine sage (devarṣi) portrayed in the epics and Purāṇas as a wandering devotee of Viṣṇu who moves freely among gods and humans, often setting events in motion. He is associated with sacred music and the lute (vīṇā) and is the traditional voice behind several devotional and aphoristic texts, most notably the Nārada Bhakti Sūtra. He is an entirely mythological figure; no historical dates can be assigned to him, and the anchor used here is purely a placeholder for the legendary Vedic/epic horizon.
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Naimisharanya
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The world in their lifetime
Thinkers and teachers of other traditions whose lives overlapped with Nārada’s — a glimpse of the wider world they lived in. Drawn purely from recorded birth and death years.
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