Daksha

vitalStatus reads 'restored to life after death', a value the corpus already uses, because the tradition does not leave him dead: Shiva relents and he is revived, in most tellings with a goat's head. The treatment consulted gives the beheading and not the revival, so the lifecycle stops at the beheading and the vitalStatus carries the rest with the honesty of a single word rather than an uncited paragraph.

Parentage

Recorded default; alternative parentage accounts are listed separately below.

No parents recorded in the default.

Parentage accounts

Each account is a separate source claim. The parentage and children listed outside these accounts use the recorded default. Selecting an account in the interactive app updates its lineage, descent classification and inherited-power candidates. Linked pedigree accounts are selected together; other records retain their recorded parentage. Claims of ancestry are not proof of biological descent or attested powers.

• Rigveda 10.72.4–5, Griffith translation

  deity by descent in this account.

  • parent: AditiRigveda 10.72.4–5, Griffith translation (primary)
  Rigveda 10.72.4–5, Griffith translation (primary)

Children

• Sati
• Svadhā

Children in alternative accounts

• Aditi: Viṣṇu Purāṇa 1.15: DakshaViṣṇu Purāṇa 1.15, Wilson translation, Āditya genealogy (primary)
• Aditi: Ṛgveda 10.72.4–5: reciprocal originṚgveda 10.72.4–5, Griffith translation (primary)
• Aditi: Padma Purāṇa 1.6: Dakṣa and VīriṇīPadma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa 1.6.12–16 and 28–34, Deshpande translation (primary)
• Danu: Padma Purāṇa 1.6: Dakṣa and VīriṇīPadma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa 1.6.12–16 and 28–34, Deshpande translation (primary)
• Diti: Padma Purāṇa 1.6: Dakṣa and VīriṇīPadma Purāṇa, Sṛṣṭikhaṇḍa 1.6.12–16 and 28–34, Deshpande translation (primary)
• Sati: Shiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of SatiShiva Purana 2.2.14.12–16, 27, 42–54, birth of Sati (primary)
• Svāhā: Epic account: Dakṣa’s daughterW. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (1900), pp.335–341, Karttikeya: separate birth traditions (secondary)

Variant accounts

• parentageRigveda 10.72.4–5 makes Daksha arise from Aditi and Aditi from Daksha. This reciprocal cosmogony is a separate account, not a replacement for later genealogies.Rigveda 10.72.4–5, Griffith translation (primary)

Domains

• ritual sacrifice
• progenitorship

Relations

• beheaded by: VirabhadraIn-batch.Reference treatment: Virabhadra and Bhadrakali destroyed the sacrificial altar, defeated the deities who tried to defend Daksha, and ultimately beheaded Daksha. (secondary)
• excluded: ShivaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Shiva record. The exclusion is the whole cause, and it is recorded as an act rather than as an enmity.Reference treatment: Daksha deliberately did not invite Sati and Shiva, and openly disrespected Shiva. (secondary)
• father of: SvāhāW. J. Wilkins, Hindu Mythology, Vedic and Puranic (1900), pp.335–341, Karttikeya: separate birth traditions (secondary)
• father of: AditiVishnu Purana 1.15 names Aditi among Daksha's daughters. This Puranic relationship remains separate from the reciprocal Rigvedic cosmogony.Vishnu Purana 1.15, Wilson translation, p.122: daughters married to Kasyapa (primary)

Sources

• Daksha is the Prajapati whose sacrifice excludes Shiva and Sati, whose humiliation of his daughter leads to her death, and who is beheaded by Virabhadra.: Reference treatments of Daksha, of the Daksha yajna and of Virabhadra. (secondary)