Chapter 577
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Daksha, the “intelligent, the competent.” “This name generally carries with it the idea of creative power.” He is a son of Brahmâ and of Aditi, and agreeably to other versions, a self-born power, which, like Minerva, sprang from his father’s body. He is the chief of the Prajâpatis, the Lords or Creators of Being. In Vishnu Purâna, Parâshara says of him: “In every Kalpa [or Manvantara] Daksha and the rest are born and are again destroyed.” And the Rig Veda says that “Daksha sprang from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha,” a reference to the eternal cyclic re-birth of the same divine Essence.