Akapīvān
Akapīvān
Akapīvān is one of the saptarshis, the seven ṛshis of a manvantara, in the age of Tāmasa Manu, the fourth of the Manus. The Brahma Purāṇa names him last in its list of the ṛshis of that age, straight after Kapīvān.
The saptarshis of the Tāmasa manvantara
In Chapter 5, the Manvantara-kīrtana (“the telling of the manvantaras”), the munis ask Lomaharshaṇa how many Manus there are, what their times are and what happened in each. The Sūta answers that the history of the manvantaras cannot be told in full even in a thousand years, so he tells it in brief: for each Manu, the saptarshis, the line of sons and grandsons, and the groups of devas.
He names the Manus in order: Svāyambhuva, Svārocisha, Uttama, Tāmasa, Raivata, Cākshusha and Vaivasvata, in whose manvantara the world now stands. Of the Tāmasa manvantara he says that its saptarshis were Kāvya, Pṛthu, Agni, Jahnu, Dhātā, Kapīvān and Akapīvān. Akapīvān is the seventh named.
The Sūta then names the deva-gaṇas of that age and lists Dyuti, Tapasya, Sutava, Tapobhūta, Sanātana, Taporati, Akalmāsha, Tanvī and Parantava as “the ten told by Vāyu“.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5