Sindhudvīpa (brother of Veda)
Sindhudvīpa · sindhu-dvīpa, “island of the river”
Sindhudvīpa has other meanings too: see all meanings of Sindhudvīpa. Veda has other meanings too: see all meanings of Veda.
Sindhudvīpa is a most virtuous ṛshi, the elder brother of the great ṛshi Veda. The Brahma Purāṇa names him at the opening of the account of Bhillatīrtha, a tīrtha on the southern bank of the Gautamī, where his younger brother worshipped Bhagavān Śiva in the liṅga called Ādikeśa.
In the account of Bhillatīrtha
Brahmā tells Nārada of the tīrtha called Bhilla, which destroys pāpas and ailments and grants bhakti to the lotus feet of Mahādeva. On the southern bank of the Gautamī, in the northern region of Śrīgiri, Mahādeva is always present in the form of a liṅga known as Ādikeśa, worshipped with devotion by the ṛshis.
“There was a most virtuous ṛshi named Sindhudvīpa,” Brahmā says. “His brother was named Veda; he too was a great ṛshi.” Later in the account Veda is called “the younger brother of Sindhu”. It is Veda who worshipped Ādikeśa every day, and whose pūjā with mantras was set beside the pūjā of a hunter of the Bhilla people, after whom the tīrtha is named. Sindhudvīpa has no other part in the account.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 99
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 99