Divodasa
दिवोदास divodāsaIn the Kashi Khanda, the faultless righteous king whom Shiva installed to rule Kashi after withdrawing from it; his just reign frames the Puranic myth of how the gods came to fill the city.
Where this term appears
- What is Ayurveda? Essentials
Down the other he teaches Dhanvantari, incarnate as Divodasa, king of Kashi, and the knowledge becomes surgery; its origin story is a god ruling as a king, teaching disciples who ask to be taught the knife.
- A city made of gods Treatise
Within and among them stand the twelve Adityas , the twelve suns, the solar shrines that the Divodasa story remembers as the Suns who went to spy and stayed to shine.
- A walk down the ghats Treatise
…a is said to have performed here to welcome Shiva home in the days of Divodasa.
- How Shiva lost his city Treatise
The earth needs a king, a righteous one, to set the world in order, and the man for it is Divodasa , a prince of flawless virtue.
- The book of the city Treatise
…ws: the death that liberates, the never-forsaken ground, the story of Divodasa, the origin of the terrible guardian we are about to meet, the glory of the burning ground.