Ketumān (Son of Rajas)

Ketumān · ketu-mān

Ketumān has other meanings too: see all meanings of Ketumān.

Ketumān is the son of Rajas, crowned lord of the western quarter. He is not Ketumān the son of Dhanvantari.

When Pṛthu had been crowned king of kings, lords were appointed over every class of beings, and the four quarters were each given a lord by abhisheka: the east to Sudhanvā, son of Vairāja Prajāpati; the south to Śaṅkhapada, son of Kardama Prajāpati; the west to Ketumān, son of Rajas; and the north to Hiraṇyaroma, son of Parjanya Prajāpati. “This earth, surrounded by the seven dvīpas and filled with towns, is ruled with dharma by each of them even now.”

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 4