Prācīnabarhis
Prācīnabarhis
Prācīnabarhis is a name used for more than one person in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
People
- Prācīnabarhish: a king of Dhruva‘s line who covered the earth with darbha grass through his yajñas and fathered the ten Pracetasas. Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 4, Chapters 24–30; Agni Purāṇa, Chapter 18; Brahma Purāṇa, Chapters 2, 34, 226
- Prācīnabarhis of the Sūrya Vaṃśa: a king of the Sūrya-vaṃśa who ruled three and a half crore years and gained his son Mahiman from the third eye of Bhagavān Śiva on the Gautamī. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 83
- Prācīnabarhis (father of Havyaghna): the husband of Sandhyā and the father of the rākshasa Havyaghna, the destroyer of havis, and of his brother Kālī. Brahma Purāṇa, Gautamī Māhātmya, Chapter 63