Parashara

"crusher, destroyer" is the name of several figures in Hindu tradition:

• a son of Vasishtha, or a son of Shakti and grandson of Vasishtha, according to the Mahabharata the father of Vyasa, and recorded as the author of RV 1.65-73 and part of RV 9.97.
• the author of a code of laws
• name of the authors of several writers on medicine and astrology
• the (BPHS, hora is the sanskrit word from which horoscope is derived, dating to the 7th to 8th centuries CE
• the Vrksayurveda ("the science of life of trees"), one of the earliest texts on botany.
• Parashara Bhattar, the son of Kurattazhvan (Kuresa), by Ramanujacharya, a disciple of Yamunacharya (12th century).

References

• Monier-Williams, Sanskrit Dictionary (1899).

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