Atri

This article is about the Vedic sage. For other uses, see Atri (disambiguation).

Atri
Rama visiting Atri's hermitage. As Atri talks to Rama and his brother Lakshmana, Anusuya talks with his wife Sita
AffiliationBrahmarshi
Genealogy
Parents
SpouseAnasuya
ChildrenDurvasa, Chandra and Dattatreya

Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous hymns to Agni, Indra, and other Vedic deities of Hinduism. Atri is one of the Saptarishi (seven great Vedic sages) in the Hindu tradition, and the one most mentioned in its scripture Rigveda.[1]

The fifth Mandala (Book 5) of the Rigveda is called the Atri Mandala in his honour, and the eighty seven hymns in it are attributed to him and his descendants.[2]

Atri is also mentioned in the Puranas and the Hindu epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.[3][4]

  1. ^ Antonio Rigopoulos (1998). Dattatreya: The Immortal Guru, Yogin, and Avatara. State University of New York Press. pp. 2–4. ISBN 978-0-7914-3696-7.
  2. ^ Stephanie W. Jamison; Joel P. Brereton (2014). The Rigveda. Oxford University Press. pp. 659–660. ISBN 978-0-19-937018-4.
  3. ^ Alf Hiltebeitel (2016). Nonviolence in the Mahabharata: Siva’s Summa on Rishidharma and the Gleaners of Kurukshetra. Routledge. pp. 55–56, 129. ISBN 978-1-317-23877-5.
  4. ^ Roshen Dalal (2010). Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide. Penguin Books. p. 49. ISBN 978-0-14-341421-6.