Śuka
c. 1450 BCE · Muzaffarnagar
Legendary sage with no historical existence; the son of Veda-Vyasa and traditional narrator of the Bhāgavata Purāṇa to king Parīkṣit. The date is a conventional placement tied to his Vyāsa lineage and makes no historical claim.
Śuka (Śukadeva) is a legendary sage of the epic-Purāṇic tradition, celebrated as the son of Veda-Vyāsa and as a perfectly detached renunciate (sannyāsī) from birth. In tradition he is the narrator who recites the Bhāgavata Purāṇa to the dying king Parīkṣit during the king's final seven days. He is honored as a paragon of liberation (mokṣa) and dispassion; his historicity is not established, and he is best understood as a mythological figure of the Mahābhārata and Purāṇic literature rather than a datable historical person.
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