Vṛihaspati

Vṛihaspati is named as the father of Tára in a passage listing the parentage of prominent monkey leaders. His brief appearance places him within the poem’s account of the ancestry of its extraordinary allies, but the supplied text does not develop him as an active character.

Identity and Lineage

The passage identifies Tára as the offspring of Vṛihaspati. It places this statement alongside other paternal lineages: Indra is named as the father of one figure, and the Sun as the father of Sugríva. Vṛihaspati’s role here is therefore genealogical, establishing the divine parentage attributed to a monkey leader.

Relationship to Tára

Tára is described as a mighty monkey and a matchless chieftain. Vṛihaspati’s significance in this account comes from that parent-child connection: the poem associates a prominent leader among the monkey people with Vṛihaspati, without recounting the circumstances of Tára’s birth or describing interaction between father and son.

Narrative Role

Vṛihaspati appears briefly in a catalogue of the monkey leaders’ origins, rather than in a scene of his own. The lineage helps frame the allies as figures of distinguished ancestry; beyond naming him as Tára’s father, the supplied passage gives no further action, speech, or fate for Vṛihaspati.