Nabhas (saptarshi of the Cākshusha Manvantara)
Nabhas, “the sky”
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Nabhas is one of the saptarshis, the seven ṛshis of a manvantara, in the age of Cākshusha Manu, the sixth of the Manus. He is not Nabhas the son of Svārocisha Manu, who is named in the same chapter.
The saptarshis of the Cākshusha 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.
“The sixth Manu is Cākshusha,” he says. The saptarshis in his time were Bhṛgu, Nabhas, Vivasvān, Sudhāma, Viraja and Sahishṇu, “famed from childhood”. Nabhas is the second named. The deva-gaṇa of that age is the five called the Lekhas, and the sons of Cākshusha Manu are Ruru and the others. After this the Sūta turns to the seventh manvantara, of Vaivasvata Manu, in which the world now stands.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5