Sahishṇu

Sahishṇu · sahishṇu, “the forbearing one”

Sahishṇu is one of the saptarshis (the seven ṛshis who hold office in each age of a Manu) of the sixth manvantara, the age of Cākshusha Manu. The Brahma Purāṇa names him last among the ṛshis of that age, after Bhṛgu, Nabhas, Vivasvān, Sudhāma and Viraja, all of them famed from childhood.

In 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 of his time are Bhṛgu, Nabhas, Vivasvān, Sudhāma, Viraja and Sahishṇu, famed from childhood. The deva-gaṇas of that age are the five called the Lekhas, and the sons of Cākshusha Manu are Ruru and the others. After it comes the seventh, the present Vaivasvata manvantara.

Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5

Sources

• Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5