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'''Kanva''' ([[Sanskrit]]: कण्व ''{{IAST|káṇva}}''), also called '''Karnesh''', was an ancient [[Hindu]] [[rishi]]<ref name="Dowson-154">{{Cite dictionary|last=Dowson |first=John |author-link=John Dowson |year=2000 |title=Kanva |dictionary=A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology & Religion |edition=D. K. Printworld second |location=New Delhi |publisher=D. K. Printworld |page=154 |isbn=81-246-0108-9 |url=http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20200519170458/http://lakshminarayanlenasia.com/articles/Downson-Religion.pdf |archive-date=19 May 2020 |url-status=live }}</ref> of the ''[[Treta Yuga]]'', to whom some of the hymns of the ''[[Rig Veda]]'' are ascribed.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} He was one of the [[Angiras (sage)|Angirasas]].{{citation needed|date=February 2021}} He has been called a son of Ghora, but this lineage belongs to Pragatha Kanva, a subsequent Kanva of which there were many.<ref>{{Cite book|last=Patton |first=Laurie L. |year=1996 |chapter=Pedigree Narratives: Parents After the Fact |title=Myth as Argument: The Brhaddevata as Canonical Commentary |location=Berlin |publisher=Walter de Gruyter |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xUZbDAAAQBAJ&pg=PA270 270] |isbn=3-11-013805-0}}</ref><ref name="Pargiter">{{Cite book|last=Pargiter |first=F. E. |year=1997 |title=Ancient Indian Historical Tradition |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |pages=226–228 |isbn=978-81-208-1486-8 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2BRjkE385ScC }}, a reprint of the 1922 London Oxford University Press edition.</ref> However, [[Puranas|Puranic literature]] has other different lineages for him, one as the son of Apratiratha and grandson of King [[Matinara]], and another as the son of Ajamidha, who was a descendant in the ninth generation of Tansu, the brother of Apratiratha (Atiratha), or Ajamidha who was a contemporary of Matinara.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Muir">{{Cite book|last=Muir |first=John |year=1872 |title=Original Sanskrit Texts on the Origin and History of the People of India: Mythical and legendary accounts of the origin of caste, with an enquiry into its existence in the Vedic age |edition=second |location=London |publisher=Trübner |pages=[https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C&pg=PA234 234–236] |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=bZOlKr9Kwr8C}}</ref> This last seems to be the modern consensus.<ref name="Pargiter" /><ref name="Sarmah">{{Cite book|last=Sarmah |first=Thaneswar |year=1991 |title=The Bharadvājas in Ancient India |location=Delhi |publisher=Motilal Banarsidass |page=[https://books.google.com/books?id=xFyu7MANWPAC&pg=PA138 138–139] |isbn=978-81-208-0639-9 }}</ref> He is sometimes included in the list of the seven sages (the [[Saptarishi]]s).<ref name="Dowson-154" /><br />
Kanva had a son Medhatithi.<ref name="Muir" /><ref name="Sarmah" /><br />
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* Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of a founder of a Vedic [[shakha]] of the Shukla Yajur Veda, and hence the name of that theological branch of Hinduism, the [[Kanva Shakha]].<ref>For a brief summary of the shakhas as given in Shaunaka's ''{{IAST|Caraṇa-vyūha}}'' see: Monier-Williams, ''A Sanskit-English Dictionary'', p. 1062, right column.</ref><ref name="Dowson-297">{{harvnb|Dowson|2000|page=297}}</ref><br />
* Kanva (Karnesh) is also the name of several princes and founders of dynasties and several authors.{{cn|date=August 2021}}<br />
* The Kanvas (Karnesh) are the descendants of king [[Vasudeva Kanva]] (1st century BCE).{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}} <br />
* The Kanvas are also a class of spirit, against whom hymn 2.25 of the ''[[Atharva Veda]]'' is used as a charm.{{Citation needed|date=May 2020}}<br />
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