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Kanva or Kanwa (Sanskrit: कण्व, IAST: Kaṇva), also called Karnesh, was an ancient Hindu rishi[1] of the Treta Yuga, to whom some of the hymns of the Rig Veda are ascribed.[2][3] He was one of the Angirasas.[4] He has been called a son of Ghora, but this lineage belongs to Pragatha Kanva, a subsequent Kanva of which there were many.[5][6] However, Puranic literature has other different lineages for him, one as the son of Apratiratha and grandson of King Matinara, and another as the son of Ajamidha, who was a descendant in the ninth generation of Tansu, the brother of Apratiratha (Atiratha), or Ajamidha who was a contemporary of Matinara.[6][7] This last seems to be the modern consensus.[6][8] He is sometimes included in the list of the seven sages (the Saptarishis).[1] Kanva had a son Medhatithi.[7][8] Kanva is also mentioned in Mahabharata as the adoptive father of Shakuntala.

  • Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of a founder of a Vedic shakha of the Shukla Yajur Veda, and hence the name of that theological branch of Hinduism, the Kanva Shakha.[9][10]
  • Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of several princes and founders of dynasties and several authors.[citation needed]
  • The Kanvas (Karnesh) are the descendants of king Vasudeva Kanva (1st century BCE).[11]
  • The Kanvas are also a class of spirit, against whom hymn 2.25 of the Atharva Veda is used as a charm.[citation needed]

References

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  1. ^ a b Dowson, John (2000). "Kanva" (PDF). A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology & Religion (D. K. Printworld second ed.). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. p. 154. ISBN 81-246-0108-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 May 2020.
  2. ^ Arya, Ravi Prakash; Joshi, K.L, eds. (1866). ऋग्वेद संहिता [Ṛgveda Saṃhitā] (in Sanskrit). Translated by Wilson, Horace Hayman. with Bhāṣya of Sāyaṇācārya. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 9788171101382. Archived from the original on 24 December 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2025. घ्नन्तो वृत्रमतरन्रोदसी अप उरु क्षयाय चक्रिरे । भुवत्कण्वे वृषा द्युम्न्याहुतः क्रन्ददश्वो गविष्टिषु ॥
  3. ^ Macdonell, Arthur Anthony; Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1912). Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. 1. London: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 134. ISBN 9788120813328. Kaṇva is the name of an ancient Ṛṣi repeatedly referred to in the Rigveda and later. His sons and descendants, the Kaṇvas, are also often mentioned, especially in the eighth book of the Rigveda, the authorship of that book, as well as of part of the first, being attributed to this family.
  4. ^ Monier-Williams, Sir Monier (1899). "कण्व" (PDF). A Sanskrit-English dictionary. with the collaboration of Ernst Leumann & Carl Capeller (Reprinted ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 246. ISBN 978-81-208-0065-6. he is called a son of Ghora and is said to belong to the family of Aṅgiras{{cite book}}: CS1 maint: url-status (link)
  5. ^ Patton, Laurie L. (1996). "Pedigree Narratives: Parents After the Fact". Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 270. ISBN 3-11-013805-0.
  6. ^ a b c Pargiter, F. E. (1997). Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 226–228. ISBN 978-81-208-1486-8., a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.
  7. ^ a b Muir, John (1872). Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age (second ed.). London: Trübner. pp. 234–236.
  8. ^ a b Sarmah, Thaneswar (1991). The Bharadvājas in Ancient India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 138–139. ISBN 978-81-208-0639-9.
  9. ^ For a brief summary of the shakhas as given in Shaunaka's Caraṇa-vyūha see: Monier-Williams, A Sanskrit-English Dictionary, p. 1062, right column.
  10. ^ Dowson 2000, p. 297
  11. ^ Chaurasia, Radhey Shyam (2002). History of Ancient India: Earliest Times to 1000 A.D. Atlantic Publishers & Dist. p. 132. ISBN 978-81-269-0027-5.


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