Dhruva (son of Medhātithi)
Dhruva, “the firm, unmoving one”
Dhruva has other meanings too: see all meanings of Dhruva.
Dhruva is the seventh son of Medhātithi, the lord of Plaksha-dvīpa. He and his six brothers ruled that dvīpa. He is not Dhruva the son of Uttānapāda, who shines before the saptarshis.
Medhātithi’s sons and Plaksha-dvīpa
Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis of the dvīpas beyond Jambūdvīpa. Plaksha-dvīpa is twice the size of Jambūdvīpa, and its lord is Medhātithi. Medhātithi has seven sons, who ruled this dvīpa: Śāntamaya, the eldest, Śiśira, Sukhodaya, Ānanda, Śiva, Kshemaka and Dhruva. By their names there are seven boundary mountains.
The seven varsha mountains of Plaksha-dvīpa are Gomoda, Candra, Nārada, Dundubhi, Somaka, Sumanas and Vaibhrāja, where people live together with devas and gandharvas, free of mental pain and illness. Its seven rivers, Anutaptā, Śikhā, Vipāśā, Tridivā, Kramu, Amṛtā and Sukṛtā, take away pāpa the moment one hears their names. There time always runs as in the Tretā yuga, and people live five thousand years. A great plaksha tree stands in the middle of the dvīpa and gives it its name, and there Hari, the ruler of all, is worshipped in the form of Soma. The dvīpa is ringed by the ocean of sugar-cane juice.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20