Prabhākara (son of Jyotishmān)
Prabhākara · prabhā-kara, “the maker of light”
Prabhākara has other meanings too: see all meanings of Prabhākara.
Prabhākara is one of the seven sons of King Jyotishmān. In Kuśa-dvīpa the varshas bear the names of these sons, and one of them is named after Prabhākara. Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis of him as he describes the dvīpas beyond Jambūdvīpa. He is not the ṛshi Prabhākara of Atri‘s line.
Jyotishmān’s sons and Kuśa-dvīpa
The varshas of Kuśa-dvīpa are named after the sons of King Jyotishmān: Udbhida, Veṇumān, Svairatha, Randhana, Dhṛti, Prabhākara and Kapila.
In that dvīpa daityas, dānavas, devas, gandharvas, yakshas and kiṃpurushas live together with humans. Its four varṇas, each devoted to its own dharma, are the Damas, the Śushmiṇas, the Snehas and the Māndahas. There Janārdana is worshipped in the form of Parabrahma, and the people offer yajñas to him and so exhaust the fruit of their former puṇya-karma. Its seven varsha mountains are Vidruma, Hemaśaila, Dyutimān, Pushṭimān, Kuśeśaya, Hari and Mandara, and among its rivers are Dhūtapāpā, Śivā, Pavitrā, Sammati, Vidyudambhas and Mahī, with thousands of small streams that remove all pāpa. A great clump of kuśa grass stands in its middle, and from it the dvīpa takes its name.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 20