Prithu

Prithu
Prithu chasing Prithvi, who is in the form of a cow
Devanagari	पृथु
Affiliation	Vaishnavism, Chakravarti sovereign
Weapon	Bow and arrow
Genealogy
Parents	Vena (father)
Consort	Archi
Children	Vijitsatva

Prithu (Sanskrit: पृथु, Pṛthu, lit. "large, great, important, abundant")^[1] is a sovereign (chakravarti), featured in the Puranas. According to Hinduism, he is an avatar (incarnation) of the preserver god—Vishnu. He is also called Prithu, Prithi and Prithvi Vainya, literally, "Prithu — the son of Vena".

Prithu is "celebrated as the first consecrated king, from whom the earth received her (Sanskrit) name, Prithvi."^[2] He is mainly associated with the legend of his chasing the earth goddess, Prithvi, who fled in the form of a cow and eventually agreed to yield her milk as the world's grain and vegetation.^[3] The epic Mahabharata, Vishnu Purana, and the Bhagavata Purana describe him as a part-avatar (incarnation) of Vishnu.^[4]