Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2890

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KṢUPA I. A Prajāpati. There is a story about the birth of this Prajāpati in Mahābhārata. Once Brahmā wished to perform a sacrifice. But he could not get suitable priest as the performer of the sacrifice. So Brahmā decided to create a befitting person as Ṛtvik (the priest who does the rituals of the sacrifice) and he got pregnant in his head. After a thousand years he sneezed and a Prajāpati came out of the head of Brahmā. That Prajāpati was Kṣupa. He made Kṣupa his Ṛtvik. (Mahābhārata, Śānti Parva, Chapter 122). Rudra Bhagavān made him Prajāpati (the Lord of all subjects).