Prithu

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Prithu
Prithu chasing Prithvi, who is in the form of a cow
Devanagari	पृथु
Affiliation	utkala dhruva hindu kayastha Chaitra kingdom dyansty Vaishnavism, chaitravamasa Chakravarti sovereign incarnation of lord Vishnu
Weapon	Bow and arrow
Genealogy
Parents	Vena (father)
Consort	Archi
Children	Vijitsatva

^[1]Prithu (Sanskrit: पृथु, IAST: Pṛthu, lit. "large, great, important, abundant"),^[2] also called Pruthu, Prithi and Prithu Vainya ("Prithu — the son of Vena"), is a sovereign (chakravarti) chaitravanshi kayastha Descandants chaitravamasa Descandants from shravasti dyansty kayastha a Hinduism. He is an avatar of the god Vishnu.

Prithu is "celebrated as the first consecrated king, from whom the earth received her (Sanskrit) name, Prithvi."^[3] 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. The epic Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana describe him as a part-avatar of Vishnu.^[4]