13 Facts About Prajapati

In later literature, Prajapati is identified with the creator god Brahma, but the term connotes many different gods, depending on the Hindu text, ranging from being the creator god to being same as one of the following: Viswakarma, Agni, Indra, Daksha, and many others, reflecting the diverse Hindu cosmology.

Prajapati appears late in the Vedic layer of texts, and the hymns that mention him provide different cosmological theories in different chapters.

Prajapati is younger than Savitr, and the word was originally an epithet for the sun.

Scholars such as Renou, Keith and Bhattacharji posit Prajapati originated as an abstract or semi-abstract deity in the later Vedic milieu as speculations evolved from the archaic to more learned speculations.

Protogonos is the Orphic equivalent of Vedic Prajapati in several ways: he is the first god born from a cosmic egg, he is the creator of the universe, and in the figure of Dionysus— a direct descendant of Protogonos—worshippers participate in his death and rebirth.

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Prajapati is described in many ways and inconsistently in Hindu texts, both in the Vedas and in the post-Vedic texts.

Prajapati's role peaked in the Brahmanas layer of Vedic text, then declined to being a group of helpers in the creation process.

However, this Prajapati is a metaphor, one of many Hindu cosmology theories, and there is no supreme deity in the Rigveda.

Aitareya Brahmana offers a different myth, wherein Prajapati, having created the gods, metamorphosed into a stag and approached his daughter Dawn who was in the form of a doe, to produce other earthly beings.

The Kausitaki Brahmana offers yet another myth, wherein Prajapati created from his own self fire, sun, moon, wind and feminine dawn.

Prajapati appears in early Upanishads, among the most influential texts in Hinduism.

Bhagavad Gita uses the epithet Prajapati to describe Krishna, along with many other epithets.

Prajapati is identified with the personifications of Time, Fire, the Sun, etc.