Pulastya
c. 1450 BCE · Pushkar
Legendary primordial sage with no historical existence; a mind-born son of Brahmā in Puranic cosmology and, in epic tradition, ancestor of Rāvaṇa. The date is a purely conventional placement and asserts no historicity.
Pulastya is a legendary primordial sage counted among the mind-born sons (mānasaputra) of Brahmā and one of the Prajāpatis, and he is reckoned among the Saptarṣi (seven great sages) of the first Manvantara. Epic and Puranic tradition makes him the father of Viśravas and thereby the grandfather of Rāvaṇa (and of Kubera), and a transmitter of sacred lore — he is said to have received the Viṣṇu Purāṇa from Brahmā and conveyed it onward to Parāśara. He is a mythological figure with no historical basis.
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