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From Kaśyapa, Danu obtained a hundred sons proud of boons. Among them Vipracitti, of great power, was the chief. (Others were) Dviraṣṭamūrdhā, Śakuni, Śaṅkuśirodhara, Ayomukha, Śambara, Kapila, Vāmana, Marīci, Māgadha, and Hari. Gajaśiras, Nidrādhara, Ketu, Ketuvīrya Taśakratu, Indramitragraha,
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Vrajanābha, Ekavastra, Mahābāhu, Vajrākṣa, Tāraka, Asiloman, Puloman, Vikurvāṇa, Mahāpura, Svarbhānu, and Vṛṣaparvan—these and others were also Danu’s sons. Suprabhā was Svarbhānu’s daughter, and Śacī was the daughter of Puloman.
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In the Brahmanda Purana, it is stated that while Aditi is habitually righteous, and Diti was habitually strong, Danu habitually practices
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Leeming, D., & Page, J. (1994). Goddess: Myths of the Female Divine (pp. 124, 125). Oxford University Press.
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described the primeval waters that this deity perhaps embodied. In later
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Danu was struck by Indra's thunderbolt after hearing him kill her son
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to be the mother of the eponymous race known as the
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Index

Danu (Asura)
Texts
Vedas
Puranas
Daksha
Panchajani
Aditi
Diti
Svaha
Sati
Kadru
Vinata
Rati
Kashyapa
Danavas
Deh₂nu
Sanskrit
IAST
Hindu primordial goddess
Rigveda
danavas
Hinduism
Prajapati
Daksha
Panchajani
Kashyapa
Don
Danube
Dnieper
Dniestr

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