Editing Daksha (section)

== Etymology and textual history==
The meaning of the word "Daksha" (दक्ष) is "able", "expert", "skillful" or "honest".<ref name = "N" >{{Cite book|last=Gandhi|first=Maneka|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PkW6hs1OjyEC&q=Daksa&pg=PA379|title=The Penguin Book of Hindu Names|date=1993|publisher=Penguin Books India|isbn=978-0-14-012841-3|language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite book|last1=Monier-Williams|first1=Sir Monier|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=zUezTfym7CAC&q=Daksha|title=A Sanskrit-English Dictionary: Etymologically and Philologically Arranged with Special Reference to Cognate Indo-European Languages|last2=Leumann|first2=Ernst|last3=Cappeller|first3=Carl|date=1899|publisher=Motilal Banarsidass Publishing House|isbn=978-81-208-3105-6|language=en}}</ref> According to the [[Bhagavata Purana]], Daksha got this name as he was expert in begetting children.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Prabhupada|first=His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=voVOCgAAQBAJ&q=Dak%E1%B9%A3a+expert&pg=PT70|title=Srimad-Bhagavatam, Sixth Canto: Prescribed Duties for Mankind|date=1975-12-31|publisher=The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust|isbn=978-91-7149-639-3|language=en}}</ref> The word also means "fit", "energetic" and "fire".<ref name = "N" />  Daksha also has another name "Kan".<ref name = "VM" />

Daksha finds mentions in the ancient scripture ''[[Rigveda]]'' (2nd millennium BCE), where he is described as an [[Ādityas|Aditya]] ('son of the goddess [[Aditi]]') and specifically associated with the skilled actions of sacrificers.<ref name = "Rig">{{cite book|author=Stephanie Jamison|title=The Rigveda –– Earliest Religious Poetry of India|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=1LTRDwAAQBAJ|year=2015|publisher=Oxford University Press|isbn=978-0190633394|page=44}}</ref> Later in the ''[[Brahmanas]]'' (900 BCE - 700 BCE), he is identified with the creator deity [[Prajapati]].<ref name="Very well" >{{Cite book|last= Dowson|first=John|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=PwsYAAAAYAAJ&q=Daksha|title=A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature|year=1870}}</ref><ref name = "Enc" >{{Cite book|last1=Coulter|first1=Charles Russell|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=sEIngqiKOugC&q=Daksha&pg=PA285|title=Encyclopedia of Ancient Deities|last2=Turner|first2=Patricia|date=2013-07-04|publisher=Routledge|isbn=978-1-135-96390-3|language=en}}</ref> Key elements of Daksha including his yajna and ram head, which later became a key feature in the Puranic iconography, are first found in the Taittariya Samhita.<ref name="Very well" /><ref name = "good" >{{Cite book|last=Klostermaier|first=Klaus K.|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=FB29DwAAQBAJ&q=Dak%E1%B9%A3a&pg=PT84|title=Hinduism: A Short History|date=2014-10-01|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-1-78074-680-7|language=en}}</ref> The epics—the ''[[Ramayana]]'' and the ''[[Mahabharata]]''—also mention Daksha. Most of the stories about Daksha are found in the ''[[Puranas]]'' (3rd - 10th century CE).<ref name = "good" /><ref name="Enc"/>