Editing Bharadvaja (section)

==Description==
His full name in Vedic texts is ''Bharadvaja Barhaspatya'', the last name referring to his father and Vedic deity-sage [[Brihaspati]]. His mother was Mamata, wife of Utathya Rishi, who was the elder brother of Barhaspati.<ref name="Dalal2010p86">{{cite book|author=Roshen Dalal|title=Hinduism: An Alphabetical Guide|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=DH0vmD8ghdMC |year=2010| publisher=Penguin Books| isbn=978-0-14-341421-6| pages=86–87}}</ref> In the ''Bhagavata Purana'', he is named as Vitatha.<ref name="Dalal2010p86b">{{Cite web|url=https://vedabase.io/en/library/sb/9/21/1/|title=Śrīmad-Bhāgavatam (Bhāgavata Purāṇa) » Canto 9: Liberation » Chapter Twenty-One}}</ref> He is one of  seven rishis mentioned four times in the ''Rigveda'' as well as in the ''[[Shatapatha Brahmana]]'', thereafter revered in the ''Mahabharata'' and the ''Puranas''.<ref name="holdrege229">{{cite book|author=Barbara A. Holdrege|title=Veda and Torah: Transcending the Textuality of Scripture |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=YlvikndgEmIC&pg=PA657 |year=2012|publisher=State University of New York Press|isbn=978-1-4384-0695-4|pages=229–230, 243–244}}</ref> In some later Puranic legends, he is described as the son of Vedic sage [[Atri]].<ref name="Williams2008p82">{{cite book|author=George M. Williams |title=Handbook of Hindu Mythology |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=N7LOZfwCDpEC&pg=PA82| year=2008| publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn=978-0-19-533261-2|pages=82–83}}</ref>

In Buddhist Pali canonical texts such as ''[[Digha Nikaya]]'', Tevijja Sutta describes a discussion between the Buddha and Vedic scholars of his time. The [[Buddha]] names ten [[rishi]]s, calls them "early sages" and makers of ancient verses that have been collected and chanted in his era, and among those ten rishis is Bharadvaja.<ref name=sanjana391/><ref name=walshe188f>{{cite book|author=Maurice Walshe|title=The Long Discourses of the Buddha: A Translation of the Digha Nikaya |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=Uj86AwAAQBAJ |year=2005|publisher=Simon and Schuster|isbn=978-0-86171-979-2|pages=188–189}}</ref>{{refn|group=note|The Buddha names the following as "early sages" of Vedic verses, "Atthaka (either [[Ashtavakra]] or Atri), Vamaka, Vamadeva, Vessamitta (Visvamitra), Yamataggi, Angirasa, Bharadvaja, Vasettha (Vashistha), Kassapa (Kashyapa) and Bhagu (Bhrigu)".<ref name=walshe188f/>}}

The ancient Hindu medical treatise ''[[Charaka Samhita]]'' attributes Bharadvaja learning medical sciences to [[Indra]], after pleading that "poor health was disrupting the ability of human beings from pursuing their spiritual journey", and then Indra provides both the method and specifics of medical knowledge.<ref name="Glucklichtsov141">{{cite book|author=Ariel Glucklich|title=The Strides of Vishnu: Hindu Culture in Historical Perspective|year= 2008|publisher=Oxford University Press |isbn= 978-0-19-531405-2|pages= 141–142}}</ref>{{Sfn|Kaviratna|Sharma|1913|pp=ii–iii, 1–3 (Volume 1 of 5)}}

Bharadvaja is considered to be the initiator of the ''Bharadvāja'' [[gotra]] of the [[Brahmins]], [[Khatris]], ''Bharadvaja'' is the third in the row of the [[Pravaras|Pravara Rishis]] (''Aangirasa'', ''Barhaspatya'', ''Bharadvaja'') and is the first in the ''Bharadvaja Gotris'', with the other two rishis  being initiators of Gotras with their respective names.<ref>{{cite web |last1=Prasad |first1=Hari |title=Gotras and Pravaras |url=https://www.indiafacts.org.in/gotras-and-pravaras/ |website=Indiafacts.org}}</ref>