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{{Short description|Ancient Indian Sage}}
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[[File:Crying of Shakuntala.jpg|thumb|Shakuntala seeks Kanva's blessings before departing]]
'''Kanva''' ([[Sanskrit]]: कण्व ''{{IAST|káṇva}}''), also called '''Karnesh''', was an ancient [[Hindu]] [[rishi]]<ref name="Dowson-154">{{Cite dictionary|last=Dowson |first=John |author-link=John Dowson |year=2000 |title=Kanva |dictionary=A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology & Religion |edition=D. K. Printworld second |location=New Delhi |publisher=D. K. Printworld |page=154 |isbn=81-246-0108-9 |url=http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519170458/http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> of the [[Treta yuga]], to whom some of the hymns of the ''[[Rig Veda]]'' are ascribed.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} He was one of the [[Angiras (sage)|Angirasas]].{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} He has been called a son of Ghora, but this lineage belongs to Pragatha Kanva, a subsequent Kanva of which there were many.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patton |first=Laurie L. |year=1996 |chapter=Pedigree Narratives: Parents After the Fact |title=Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary |location=Berlin |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xUZbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 270] |isbn=3-11-013805-0}}</ref><ref name="Pargiter">{{Cite book|last=Pargiter |first=F. E.  |year=1997 |title=Ancient Indian Historical Tradition |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |pages=226–228 |isbn=978-81-208-1486-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BRjkE385ScC }}, a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.</ref> However, [[Puranas|Puranic literature]] has other different lineages for him, one as the son of Apratiratha and grandson of King [[Matinara]], and another as the son of Ajamidha, who was a descendant in the ninth generation of Tansu, the brother of Apratiratha (Atiratha), or Ajamidha who was a contemporary of Matinara.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Muir">{{Cite book|last=Muir |first=John |year=1872 |title=Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age |edition=second |location=London |publisher=Trübner |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C&pg=PA234 234–236] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C}}</ref> This last seems to be the modern consensus.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Sarmah">{{Cite book|last=Sarmah |first=Thaneswar |year=1991 |title=The Bharadvājas in Ancient India |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xFyu7MANWPAC&pg=PA138 138–139] |isbn=978-81-208-0639-9 }}</ref> He is sometimes included in the list of the seven sages (the [[Saptarishi]]s).<ref name="Dowson-154" />
'''Kanva''' or '''Kanwa''' ({{langx|sa|कण्व}}, {{IAST3|Kaṇva}}) was an ancient [[Hindu]] [[rishi]]<ref name="Dowson-154">{{Cite dictionary|last=Dowson |first=John |author-link=John Dowson |year=2000 |title=Kanva |dictionary=A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology & Religion |edition=D. K. Printworld second |location=New Delhi |publisher=D. K. Printworld |page=154 |isbn=81-246-0108-9 |url=http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519170458/http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> of the ''[[Treta Yuga]]'', to whom some of the hymns of the ''[[Rig Veda]]'' are ascribed.<ref>{{Cite book |url=https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/rig-veda-english-translation/d/doc829329.html |title=ऋग्वेद संहिता |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |others=with Bhāṣya of Sāyaṇācārya |year=1866 |isbn=9788171101382 |editor-last=Arya |editor-first=Ravi Prakash |language=sa |translator-last=Wilson |translator-first=Horace Hayman |trans-title=Ṛgveda Saṃhitā |quote=घ्नन्तो वृत्रमतरन्रोदसी अप उरु क्षयाय चक्रिरे । भुवत्कण्वे वृषा द्युम्न्याहुतः क्रन्ददश्वो गविष्टिषु ॥ |access-date=20 January 2025 |editor-last2=Joshi |editor-first2=K.L |translator-link=H. H. Wilson |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20241224093631/https://www.wisdomlib.org/hinduism/book/rig-veda-english-translation/d/doc829329.html |archive-date=24 December 2024 |url-status=live}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book |last1=Macdonell |first1=Arthur Anthony |author-link1=Arthur Anthony Macdonell |title=Vedic Index of Names and Subjects |last2=Keith |first2=Arthur Berriedale |author-link2=Arthur Berriedale Keith |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |year=1912 |isbn=9788120813328 |volume=1 |location=London |page=134 |language=en |quote=Kaṇva is the name of an ancient Ṛṣi repeatedly referred to in the Rigveda and later. His sons and descendants, the Kaṇvas, are also often mentioned, especially in the eighth book of the Rigveda, the authorship of that book, as well as of part of the first, being attributed to this family.}}</ref> He was one of the [[Angiras (sage)|Angirasas]].<ref>{{Cite book |last=Monier-Williams |first=Sir Monier |author-link=Monier Monier-Williams |url=https://archive.org/details/in.ernet.dli.2015.31959/page/n283/mode/1up |title=A Sanskrit-English dictionary |publisher=[[Motilal Banarsidass]] |others=with the collaboration of Ernst Leumann & Carl Capeller |year=1899 |isbn=978-81-208-0065-6 |edition=Reprinted |location=Delhi |page=246 |language=en |chapter=कण्व |quote=he is called a son of Ghora and is said to belong to the family of Aṅgiras |chapter-url=https://www.sanskrit-lexicon.uni-koeln.de/scans/MWScan/MWScanpdf/mw0246-kaNThAvasakta.pdf }}</ref> He has been called a son of Ghora, but this lineage belongs to Pragatha Kanva, a subsequent Kanva of which there were many.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patton |first=Laurie L. |year=1996 |chapter=Pedigree Narratives: Parents After the Fact |title=Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary |location=Berlin |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xUZbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 270] |isbn=3-11-013805-0}}</ref><ref name="Pargiter">{{Cite book|last=Pargiter |first=F. E.  |year=1997 |title=Ancient Indian Historical Tradition |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |pages=226–228 |isbn=978-81-208-1486-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BRjkE385ScC }}, a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.</ref> However, [[Puranas|Puranic literature]] has other different lineages for him, one as the son of Apratiratha and grandson of King [[Matinara]], and another as the son of Ajamidha, who was a descendant in the ninth generation of Tansu, the brother of Apratiratha (Atiratha), or Ajamidha who was a contemporary of Matinara.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Muir">{{Cite book|last=Muir |first=John |year=1872 |title=Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age |edition=second |location=London |publisher=Trübner |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C&pg=PA234 234–236] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C}}</ref> This last seems to be the modern consensus.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Sarmah">{{Cite book|last=Sarmah |first=Thaneswar |year=1991 |title=The Bharadvājas in Ancient India |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xFyu7MANWPAC&pg=PA138 138–139] |isbn=978-81-208-0639-9 }}</ref> He is sometimes included in the list of the seven sages (the [[Saptarishi]]s).<ref name="Dowson-154" />
Kanva had a son Medhatithi.<ref name="Muir" /><ref name="Sarmah" />
Kanva had a son Medhatithi.<ref name="Muir" /><ref name="Sarmah" /> Kanva is also mentioned in Mahabharata as the adoptive father of [[Shakuntala]].
 
* Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of a founder of a Vedic [[shakha]] of the Shukla Yajur Veda, and hence the name of that theological branch of Hinduism, the [[Kanva Shakha]].<ref>For a brief summary of the shakhas as given in Shaunaka's ''{{IAST|Caraṇa-vyūha}}'' see: Monier-Williams, ''A Sanskit-English Dictionary'', p. 1062, right column.</ref><ref name="Dowson-297">{{harvnb|Dowson|2000|page=297}}</ref>
* Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of several princes and founders of dynasties and several authors.{{cn|date=August 2021}}
* The Kanvas (Karnesh) are the descendants of king [[Vasudeva Kanva]] (1st century BCE).{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}
* The Kanvas are also a class of spirit, against whom hymn 2.25 of the ''[[Atharva Veda]]'' is used as a charm.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}


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This article is about Hindu sage. For Indian dynasty with the same name, see Kanva dynasty.

Shakuntala seeks Kanva's blessings before departing

Kanva or Kanwa (Sanskrit: कण्व, IAST: Kaṇva) was an ancient Hindu rishi[1] of the Treta Yuga, to whom some of the hymns of the Rig Veda are ascribed.[2][3] He was one of the Angirasas.[4] He has been called a son of Ghora, but this lineage belongs to Pragatha Kanva, a subsequent Kanva of which there were many.[5][6] However, Puranic literature has other different lineages for him, one as the son of Apratiratha and grandson of King Matinara, and another as the son of Ajamidha, who was a descendant in the ninth generation of Tansu, the brother of Apratiratha (Atiratha), or Ajamidha who was a contemporary of Matinara.[6][7] This last seems to be the modern consensus.[6][8] He is sometimes included in the list of the seven sages (the Saptarishis).[1] Kanva had a son Medhatithi.[7][8] Kanva is also mentioned in Mahabharata as the adoptive father of Shakuntala.

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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dowson, John (2000). "Kanva" (PDF). A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology & Religion (D. K. Printworld second ed.). New Delhi: D. K. Printworld. p. 154. ISBN 81-246-0108-9. Archived (PDF) from the original on 19 May 2020.
  2. ↑ Arya, Ravi Prakash; Joshi, K.L, eds. (1866). ऋग्वेद संहिता [Ṛgveda Saṃhitā] (in संस्कृतम्). Translated by Wilson, Horace Hayman. with Bhāṣya of Sāyaṇācārya. Motilal Banarsidass. ISBN 9788171101382. Archived from the original on 24 December 2024. Retrieved 20 January 2025. घ्नन्तो वृत्रमतरन्रोदसी अप उरु क्षयाय चक्रिरे । भुवत्कण्वे वृषा द्युम्न्याहुतः क्रन्ददश्वो गविष्टिषु ॥
  3. ↑ Macdonell, Arthur Anthony; Keith, Arthur Berriedale (1912). Vedic Index of Names and Subjects. Vol. 1. London: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 134. ISBN 9788120813328. Kaṇva is the name of an ancient Ṛṣi repeatedly referred to in the Rigveda and later. His sons and descendants, the Kaṇvas, are also often mentioned, especially in the eighth book of the Rigveda, the authorship of that book, as well as of part of the first, being attributed to this family.
  4. ↑ Monier-Williams, Sir Monier (1899). "कण्व" (PDF). A Sanskrit-English dictionary. with the collaboration of Ernst Leumann & Carl Capeller (Reprinted ed.). Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 246. ISBN 978-81-208-0065-6. he is called a son of Ghora and is said to belong to the family of Aṅgiras
  5. ↑ Patton, Laurie L. (1996). "Pedigree Narratives: Parents After the Fact". Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary. Berlin: Walter de Gruyter. p. 270. ISBN 3-11-013805-0.
  6. ↑ 6.0 6.1 6.2 Pargiter, F. E. (1997). Ancient Indian Historical Tradition. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. pp. 226–228. ISBN 978-81-208-1486-8., a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.
  7. ↑ 7.0 7.1 Muir, John (1872). Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age (second ed.). London: Trübner. pp. 234–236.
  8. ↑ 8.0 8.1 Sarmah, Thaneswar (1991). The Bharadvājas in Ancient India. Delhi: Motilal Banarsidass. p. 138–139. ISBN 978-81-208-0639-9.


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