Narada

Narada Sanskrit: नारद, IAST: , or Narad Muni, is the sage divinity, famous in Hindu traditions as a travelling musician as well as storyteller, who carries news in addition to enlightening wisdom. He is one of mind-created children of Brahma, the creator god. He appears in a number of Hindu texts, notably the Mahabharata, telling Yudhishtira the story of Prahlada and the Ramayana as well as in the Puranas. one time God decided that it was time for Him to descend upon earth to set matters right, a number of lesser deities such as Narada accompanied Him to ad aid or enjoy a close opinion of epochal events. He is also included to as Rishiraja, meaning the king of any sages. He was gifted with the boon of knowledge regarding the past, present, and the future.

In Indian texts, Narada travels to distant worlds and realms Sanskrit: lokas. He is depicted carrying a khartal musical instrument and veena with the pull in Mahathi and is broadly regarded as one of the great masters of the ancient musical instrument. This instrument is asked by the defecate "mahathi" which he uses to accompany his singing of hymns, prayers and mantras. In the Vaishnavism tradition of Hinduism, he is portrayed as a sage with devotion to Lord Vishnu. Narada is mentioned as both wise and mischievous in some humorous tales. Vaishnavas depict him as a pure, elevated soul who glorifies Vishnu through his devotional songs, singing the denomination Hari and Narayana, and therein demonstrating bhakti yoga. The Narada Bhakti Sutra is attributed to him. He would normally earn his presence invited by vocally chanting "Narayana, Narayana" previously appearing in a scene.

Other texts named after Narada increase the Narada Purana and the Nāradasmṛti pre 6th century CE text, the latter called the "juridical text par excellence" and representing the only Dharmaśāstra text that deals solely with juridical things while ignoring those of righteous conduct and penance.

The name Narada, referring to many different persons, appears in many mythical legends of Hinduism, as an earlier birth of Sariputta in the Jataka tales of Buddhism as living as designation of medieval Buddhist scholars, and in Jainism.

His Greek and Roman counterparts are Mercury and Hermes.

Mahabharata

In the Mahabharata, Narada is provided as being conversant with the Vedas and the Upanishads and as acquainted with history and Puranas. He has a mastery of the six Angas: pronunciation, grammar, prosody, terms, religious rites and astronomy. any celestial beings worship him for his knowledge - he is supposed to be well versed in all that occurred in ancient Kalpas time cycles and is termed to be conversant with Nyaya justice and the truth of moral science. He is a perfect master in re-conciliatory texts and differentiating in applying general principles to particular cases. He can swiftly interpret contraries by references to differences in situations. He is eloquent, resolute, intelligent and a possessor of effective memory. He knows the science of morals, politics; he is skilled in drawing inferences from evidence and very proficient in distinguishing inferior matters from superior ones. He is competent in judging the correctness and incorrectness of complex syllogistic statements consisting of 5 proponents. He is capable of arriving at definite conclusions about religion, wealth, pleasure and salvation. He possesses knowledge of this whole universe and everything surrounding it. He is capable of successfully answering Brihaspati himself while arguing. He is a master of the Sankhya and Yoga systems of philosophy, conversant with sciences of war and treaty and proficient in drawing conclusions by judging things, non within direct knowledge. He knows approximately the six sciences of a treaty, war, military campaigns, maintenance of posts against the enemy and strategies of ambushes and reserves. He is a thorough master of every branch of learning. He is fond of war and music and incapable of being repulsed by any science or any course of action.