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Ṣāṇdilya was the name
of at least two
prominent rishis.
One of the rishis
was the progenitor
of the Sandilya
gotra. The name was derived from the Sanskrit words ṣan, full and dilam,the moon, with the derivative ya added, meaning the one of the full moon, thereby implying a priest or a descendant of the Moon God. One rishi was a son of the sage Asita and grandson of the rishi Kashyapa, and thus the founder of the Ṣāṇdilya gotra. He was also the composer of the Ṣāṇdilya Upanishad.[1] According to the Bhagavata Purana, he was instrumental in settling certain metaphysical doubts of King Parikshit of Hastinapura and King Vajranabha of Dwaraka.[2] The other, by some accounts, a son of the sage Vasistha, had his hermitage in the Shāradāvanam, or forest of Sharada, of a village in the Bolair Valley of Kashmir.[3] The village has been identified with the modern town of Sharda, on the banks of the River Kishanganga, in Pakistan-occupied Kashmir. The goddess Sharada is said to have manifested herself to him, here, after severe penance by him, to confer upon him his yagnopaveetham, an event that was commemorated in the temple of Sharada Peeth in the town. |
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