Prithu

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

Prithu (Sanskrit: पृथु, IAST: Pṛthu, lit. "large, great, important, abundant"),^[1] also called Pruthu, Prithi and Prithu Vainya ("Prithu — the son of Vena"), is a sovereign (chakravarti) in 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."^[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. The epic Mahabharata and the Vishnu Purana describe him as a part-avatar of Vishnu.^[3]