[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.1241 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1241 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1241 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1241](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1241) NĀRADA. A Rishi to whom some hymns of the Rig-veda are ascribed. He is one of the Prajāpatis, and also one of the seven great Rishis. The various notices of him are somewhat inconsistent. The Rig-veda describes him as “of the Kanwa family.” Another authority states that he sprang from the forehead of Brahmā, and the Vishnu Purāna makes him a son of Kasyapa and one of Daksha’s daughters. The Mahā-bhārata and some Purānas state that he frustrated the scheme which Daksha had formed for peopling the earth, and consequently incurred that patriarch’s curse to enter again the womb of a woman and be born. Daksha, however, relented at the solicitation of Brahmā, and consented that Nārada should be born again of Brahmā and one of Daksha’s daughters; he was hence called Brahmā and Deva-brahmā. In some respects he bears a resemblance to Orpheus. He is the inventor of the vīnā (lute), and was chief of the Gandharvas or heavenly musicians. He also went down to the infernal regions (Pātāla), and was delighted with what he saw there. In later times he is connected with the legend of Krishna. He warned Kansa of the imminent incarnation of Vishnu, and he afterwards became the friend and associate of Krishna. - [Previous: c5.1240](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1240) - [Next: c5.1242](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1242) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Linked texts (3) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit - [Ṛgvedasaṃhitā](https://indike.org/pramana/in.veda.samhita.rg) — Sanskrit - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1241](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1241) · Pramāṇa