Citrabhānu

Citrabhānu

Citrabhānu is a name used for more than one devatā in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

Devatās

• Sūrya: Citrabhānu is one of the twelve common names of the deva of the Sun, and the name remembered at the time of death in the Bhānu Padadvaya Vrata. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 1, Chapter 1; Uttara Parva, Chapter 107
• Agni: the name of the deva of fire, to whom, hungry and thirsty, King Kārtavīryārjuna gave the whole seven-dvīpa earth in dāna. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 58