Tara
Hindu · deity · vedic · Recorded classification
Wife of Bṛhaspati and mother of Budha. In the Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Soma abducts her; she later identifies him as Budha’s father.
Children
Children in alternative accounts
- Budha: Bhāgavata9.14: Tārā’s testimonyBhāgavata Purāṇa 9.14.4,11,13, Sanskrit and translation (primary)
Variant accounts
- source review correctionReplace editorial ingestion prose with a cited narrative.Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.14.4,11,13, Sanskrit and translation (primary)
Relations
- spouse: BrihaspatiReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of Tara as Brihaspati's wife. (secondary); Bhāgavata Purāṇa 9.14.4,11,13, Sanskrit and translation (primary)
- taken by: SomaNon-symmetric, so nothing is written onto the pre-existing Soma record. The kind is deliberately the neutral one the treatment supports: the sources do not agree on whether she went willingly, and the record does not decide it.Reference treatment of Tara being taken by Soma and returned to her husband already pregnant. (secondary)
- mother of: BudhaBhāgavata Purāṇa 9.14.4,11,13, Sanskrit and translation (primary)
Sources
- Tara is Brihaspati's wife, taken by Soma, mother of Budha, who names Soma as the child's father.: Reference treatments of Tara and of the Tarakamaya war. (secondary)