Sudhāma (Saptarshi of the Cākshusha Manvantara)
Sudhāma · su-dhāma, “of good abode”
Virajā has other meanings too: see all meanings of Virajā.
Sudhāma is one of the saptarshis (the seven ṛshis) of the sixth manvantara, the age of Cākshusha Manu. The Brahma Purāṇa names him in its account of the manvantaras, with Bhṛgu, Nabhas, Vivasvān, Viraja and Sahishṇu.
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, and the Sūta tells them in brief. “The sixth Manu is Cākshusha.” 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