In Vedic and Puranic materials Kashyapa appears as one of the ancient rishis and as a progenitor figure. Puranic genealogies report that, through marriages (often to daughters of Daksha, with variant lists and numbers reported), he fathered many categories of beings — Devas, Danavas, Yakshas, Daityas and other living creatures — and so functions as a mythic ancestor. Local and later traditions link him to landscape origins (for example, the name Kashmir is often explained as derived from 'Kashyapa Mira' — the lake of the sage Kashyapa). Sources also note multiple distinct personages and variable accounts under the name Kashyapa across texts, so the identity operates as a category of seer as well as a single mythic figure.
The supplied sources do not give a fixed corporeal description of Kashyapa. He is treated in the literature as an ancestral seer, rishi, and teacher rather than as an apparition with particular physical traits; his presence is textual and genealogical (lists among the Saptarishis, appearances in hymns and Upanishadic and Puranic listings) rather than iconographically specified in the provided material.
Sources credit Kashyapa with composing some hymns in the Rigveda (notably material associated with Mandala IX) and with heading a family or school linked to Soma sacrifice hymns. In Puranic narratives he functions as a mythic progenitor, fathering many classes of beings by marriages with daughters of Daksha. Some legends ascribe to him the reclaiming or 'draining' of the Kashmir valley to make it habitable — a motif variously read as a literal landscape‑altering feat or as an allegory for civilizing/teaching activity. Overall his authority in the texts is expressed through sacred knowledge transmission, hymn composition, genealogical ordering, and foundational civilizing acts rather than enumerated magical feats.
Agastya
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Karura
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Kasa-obake
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Kassapa (name-group: Buddha, ascetics, and rulers)
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Kassite deities
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- [1]Kashyapa - Wikipedia. Wikipedia: Kashyapawiki
- [2]Kashyapa - Wikidata. Wikidata: Kashyapawiki
- [3]Digha Nikaya / Tevijja Sutta references (summary from notes). Notes citing Digha Nikaya listing Kassapa among early rishis (as reported in source set)literary
- [4]Archive: Ududumbara Kashyapa himige Niwan Maga desana. Archive material referencing Kashyapa tradition (Ududumbara sermons)other