Sādhyā (daughter of Daksha)

Sādhyā · sādhyā, “she who is to be attained”

Sādhyā is a daughter of Daksha and one of the ten wives of Dharma. She is the mother of the Sādhyas.

Lomaharshaṇa tells the munis the line of the daughters of Daksha. Daksha gave ten of his daughters to Dharma: Arundhatī, Vasu, Yāmi, Lambā, Bhānu, Marutvatī, Saṅkalpā, Muhūrtā, Sādhyā and Viśvā. Their children were these: Viśvā’s sons are the Viśvedevas, Sādhyā’s sons the Sādhyas, Marutvatī’s the Marutvantas, Vasu’s the Vasus, Bhānu’s the Bhānus and Muhūrtā’s the Muhūrtas. Lambā’s son is Ghosha and Yāmi’s daughter Nāgavīthī; all the offspring of the earth were born of Arundhatī, and to Saṅkalpā was born Saṅkalpa, the self of all.

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 3