Śaradvān (Ṛshi of the Sāvarṇi Manvantara)
Śaradvān · śarad-vān, “he of many autumns”
Śaradvān, named with the gotra name Gautama, is one of the seven ṛshis of the coming manvantara of Sāvarṇi Manu, the Manu who follows the present Vaivasvata age. The Brahma Purāṇa names him fifth among those seven, with Rāma, Vyāsa, Aśvatthāmā, Ajara, Gālava and Aurva, the ṛshis who will hold that office in the age to come.
The ṛshis of the Sāvarṇi 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.
After the seven Manus down to Vaivasvata, in whose manvantara the world now stands, he turns to the Manus to come. In the time of Sāvarṇi Manu, he says, these seven will be the ṛshis: Rāma; Vyāsa (Ātreya); Aśvatthāmā (Bhāradvāja, Drauṇi); Ajara; Śaradvān (Gautama); Gālava (Kauśika); and Aurva (Kāśyapa). Śaradvān is the fifth named.
The sons of Sāvarṇi Manu, the Sūta says, will be Vairi, Adhvarīvān, Śamana, Dhṛtimān, Vasu, Arishṭa, Adhṛshṭa, Vāji and Sumati.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 5