Aswapati
Family: Madras · Role: king · First appears: Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri
In Markandeya’s tale, in Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri, Aswapati performed holy rites year by year until the goddess Savitri appeared and promised that Swaymbhu would grant him a noble daughter. His queen bore a daughter, named Savitri, “Father's hope and joy of mother, gift of kindly gods on high!”
When Savitri came of age, Aswapati told her to choose a husband, and she left his palace to seek one. In Markandeya’s tale, Book V (Woman's Love) · III. The Fated Bridegroom, he agreed to her choice, and she married Satyavan.
Relationship record
Life events
- In Markandeya's tale, the goddess of savitri appeared before Aswapati and offered him a boon.(Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri)
- With: the goddess Savitri
- “Year by year he gathered virtue, rose in merit and in might, Till the goddess of savitri smiled upon his sacred rite, From the fire upon the altar, which a holy radiance flung, In the form of beauteous maiden, goddess of savitri sprung!”
- In Markandeya's tale, the goddess promised Aswapati that Swaymbhu would grant him a noble daughter.(Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri)
- With: the goddess Savitri Swaymbhu
- “Have thy object,” spake the maiden, “Madra's pious-hearted king, From Swaymbhu, Self-created, blessings unto thee I bring! For HE lists to mortal's prayer springing from a heart like thine, And HE wills,--a noble daughter grace thy famed and royal line!”
- In Markandeya's tale, Aswapati's queen gave birth to a daughter, who was named Savitri.(Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri)
- With: Savitri
- “And in fulness of the season came a girl with lotus-eye, Father's hope and joy of mother, gift of kindly gods on high! And the king performed its birth-rites with a glad and grateful mind, And the people blessed the dear one with their wishes good and kind, As Savitri, Prayer-Maiden, had the beauteous offspring given, Brahmans named the child Savitri, holy gift of bounteous Heaven!”
- In Markandeya's tale, Aswapati told Savitri to choose a husband, and she left his palace to seek one.(Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri)
- With: Savitri
- “Fair Savitri bowed unto him, and for parting blessings prayed, Then she left her father's palace, and in distant regions strayed, With her guard and aged courtiers whom her watchful father sent, Mounted on her golden chariot unto sylvan woodlands went.”
- In Markandeya's tale, Aswapati agreed to Savitri’s choice, and she married Satyavan.(Book V (Woman's Love) · III. The Fated Bridegroom)
Book V (Woman's Love) · II. The Tale of Savitri
- child: Savitri “And in fulness of the season came a girl with lotus-eye, Father's hope and joy of mother, gift of kindly gods on high!”
- patron: the goddess Savitri “And she spake in gentle accents, blessed the monarch good and brave, Blessed his rites and holy penance and a boon unto him gave:”
- patron: Swaymbhu “From Swaymbhu, Self-created, blessings unto thee I bring!”
Book V (Woman's Love) · III. The Fated Bridegroom
- child: Savitri “Tell me, questioned Aswapati, for I may not guess thy thought, Wherefore is my daughter's action with a sad disaster fraught?”
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Extracted from the original text of Maha-bharata, The Epic of Ancient India. Made with Rho MD.