17 Facts About Pushan

Pushan is a Hindu Vedic solar deity and one of the Adityas.

Pushan is responsible for marriages, journeys, roads, and the feeding of cattle.

Pushan was a psychopomp, conducting souls to the other world.

Pushan protected travelers from bandits and wild beasts, and protected men from being exploited by other men.

Pushan was a supportive guide, a "good" god, leading his adherents towards rich pastures and wealth.

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Many modern scholars consider Pushan to be derived from the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European god *Peh2uson, which would thereby make Pushan a cognate of the Greek god Pan.

The connection between Pan and Pushan was first proposed by the German scholar Hermann Collitz in 1924.

Pushan seems to represent the sun as a guardian of flocks and herds.

Pushan is regarded as Kavi, who in turn became an epithet of a number of gods and further a title signifying "king".

Pushan has braided hair and a beard, and carries a golden axe, an awl, and a goad.

Pushan eats gruel, and in the Shatapatha Brahmana is stated to be toothless.

Pushan is married to Surya, the daughter of the Sun, whom the gods bestowed on him.

Pushan is a knower of paths and a guardian of roads.

Pushan is associated with divine paths, and is familiar with the path between earth and heaven, which allows him lead souls to heaven.

Pushan is invoked to guard cattle, horses, and sheep, and is asked to find those cattle that have been lost.

He, in anger, pierced the sacrifice with an arrow and Pushan broke his teeth as he attempted to eat a part of the oblation.

Shiva, in anger, kicked Pushan and knocked out his teeth as he was eating the oblation.