Viśākhā

Viśākhā

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

People

• Viśākha in the Mahābhārata: the golden being who came out of the wound that Indra‘s vajra made in the side of Skanda, and who bore the śakti. Mahābhārata, Vana Parva, Chapter 227; Śiva Purāṇa, Kumāra Khaṇḍa, Chapter 3; Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapters 31, 42–43; Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 18, 50, 185, 219

Things and ideas

• Viśākhā (Nakshatra): one of the twenty-seven nakshatras, its first three pādas in the rāśi Tulā and its last pāda in Vṛścika. Vāmana Purāṇa, Chapters 5, 14, 54; Agni Purāṇa, Chapters 121, 128, 136, 195–196, 268, 294; Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 7, Chapter 14; Bhavishya Purāṇa, Brahma Parva, Chapters 34, 86, 102; Madhyama Parva, Bhāga 2, Chapters 7–8; Uttara Parva, Chapters 105–106, 108–109, 112–113, 145, 192

Named in passing

• Viśākhā the gopī: one of the six gopīs named among those who did pūjā of the young Śrī Kṛshṇa, told on Gopīs. Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapters 73–74