Concept
Atri
Overview
Atri or Attri is a Vedic sage, who is credited with composing numerous shlokas 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 the Rigveda.
The fifth Mandala (Book 5) of the Rigveda is called the Atri Mandala in his honour, and the eighty seven shlokas in it are attributed to him and his descendants.
Atri is also mentioned in the Puranas and the Hindu epics of the Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
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There are words, expressions and formulæ which can be pronounced only by the mouths of consecrated persons; there are gestures and movements which everybody cannot perform. If the Vedic sacrifice has had such an efficacy that, according to mythology, it was the creator of the gods, and not merely a means of winning their favour, it is because it possessed a virtue comparable to that of the most sacred beings. The…
Émile Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the Religious Life
States what Atri is.
The necessity residing in the nature of these principles, and in their effects, is therefore, by these sages, extended to everything that exists. As to the (Ionic Hylicists), who assume other physical (ultimate) principles, referring everything to them, they thus also subject all beings to necessity. There are others (such as Heraclitus[102]), who, seeking the (supreme) principle of the universe, refer everything to…
Plotinus, Plotinos
Close in meaning to Atri; the term itself is not named.
Different gods, therefore, having received by lot different regions, proceeded to cultivate (or set in order) those [that they had received;]—but Hephæstus and Athéné having a common nature, not only related by brotherhood from having the same father, but united also in philosophy and love of art,[383] both received this one region as their common allotment, as being naturally familiar with and well adapted to…
Plato, The works of Plato
Close in meaning to Atri; the term itself is not named.
Related ideas
- Agastya
- Bhagavata Purana
- Treta Yuga
- Hinduism
- Vedas
- Vishnu
- Rama
- Mahabharata
- Historical Vedic religion
- Brahma
- Brihadaranyaka Upanishad
- Shiva
- Rigveda
- Ramayana
- Oxford University Press
- Vaishnavism
- Indra
- Vishvamitra
- Jamadagni
Place in the tradition
Part of Timeline of Eastern philosophers.