Sri Vishvamitra

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http://www.mythfolklore.net/india/encyclopedia/viswamitra.htm

VISHVAMITRA. [source: Dowson's Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology] A

celebrated sage, who was born a Kshatriya, but by intense austerities raised

himself to the Brahman caste, and became one of the seven great Rishis.

According to the Rigveda he was son of a king named Kusika, a descendant of

Kusa, but later authorities make him the son of Gathin or Gadhi, king of

Kanyakubja, and a descendant of Puru; so Vishvamitra is declared in the

Harivansa to be "at once a Paurava and a Kausika" by lineage. According to

some, Gadhi was of the Kusika race, descended from Kusika.

Vishvamitra is called Gadhija and Gadhinandana, 'son of Gadhi.'

The story of Vishvamitra's birth, as told in the Vishnu Purana, is that Gadhi

had a daughter named Satyavati, whom he gave in marriage to an old Brahman of

the race of Bhrigu named Richika. The wife being a Kshatriya, her husband was

desirous that she might bear a son having the qualities of a Brahman, and he

gave her a dish of food which he had prepared to affect this object. He also

gave her mother a dish intended to make her conceive a son with the character

of a warrior. At the instigation of the mother the dishes were exchanged, so

the mother gave birth to Vishvamitra, the son of a Kshatriya with the qualities

of a Brahman; and Satyavati bore Jamadagni, the father of Parasurama, the

warrior Brahman and destroyer of the Kshatriyas.

The most noteworthy and important feature in the legends of Vishvamitra is the

active and enduring struggle between him and the Brahman Rishi Vasishtha, a

fact which is frequently alluded to in the Rigveda, and is supposed to typify

the contentions between the Brahmans and the Kshatriyas for the superiority.

Both these Rishis occupy a prominent position in the Rigveda, Vishvamitra being

the Rishi of the hymns in the third Mandala, which contains the celebrated verse

Gayatri, and Vasishtha of those of the seventh. Each of them was at different

times the Purohita or family priest of King Sudas, a position of considerable

importance and power, the possession of which stimulated if it did not cause

their rivalry. The two sages cursed each other, and carried their enmity into

deeds of violence.

Vishvamitra's hundred sons are represented as having been eaten or burnt up by

the breath of Vasishtha. On the other hand, the hundred sons of Vasishtha were,

according to one legend, eaten up by King Kalmashapada, into whom a man-eating

Rakshasa had entered under the influence of Vishvamitra, or, according to

another legend, there were reduced to ashes by Vishvamitra's curse "and reborn

as degraded outcasts for seven hundred births."

The Aitareya Brahmana states that Vishvamitra had a hundred sons, but that when

he adopted his nephew Sunahsephas he proposed to make him the eldest of his

sons. Fifty of them assented, and them Vishvamitra blessed that they should

"abound in cattle and sons;" the other and elder fifty dissented, and them he

cursed "that their progeny should possess the furthest ends (of the country),"

and from them have descended many of the border tribes and most of the Dasyus.

The Mahabharata has a legend of Vishvamitra having commanded the river Saraswati

to bring his rival Vasishtha that he might kill him, and of having turned it

into blood when it flowed in another direction and carried Vasishtha out of his

reach.

Vishvamitra's relationship to Jamadagni naturally places him in a prominent

position in the Ramayana. Here the old animosity between him and Vasishtha

again appears. He as a king paid a visit to Vasishtha's hermitage, and was most

hospitably entertained; but he wished to obtain Vasishtha's wondrous cow, the

Kamadhenu, which had

furnished all the dainties of the feast. His offers were immense, but were all

declined. The cow resisted and broke away when he attempted to take her by

force, and when he battled for her, his armies were defeated by the hosts

summoned up by the cow, and his "hundred sons were reduced to ashes in a moment

by the blast of Vasishtha's mouth." A long and fierce combat followed between

Vasishtha and Vishvamitra, in which the latter was defeated; the Kshatriya had

to submit to the humiliation of acknowledging his inferiority to the Brahman,

and he therefore

resolved to work out his own elevation to the Brahmanical order.

While he was engaged in austerities for accomplishing his object of becoming a

Brahman he became connected with King Trisanku. This monarch was a descendant

of King Ikshwaku, and desired to perform a sacrifice in virtue of which he

might ascend bodily to heaven. His priest, Vasishtha, declared it to be

impossible, and that priest's hundred sons, on being applied to, refused to

undertake what their father had declined. When the king told them that he would

seek some other means of accomplishing his object, they condemned him to become

a Chandala. In this condition he had resort to Vishvamitra, and he, taking pity

on him, raised him to heaven in his bodily

form, notwithstanding the opposition of the sons of Vasishtha.

The Harivansa version of this story is different. Trisanku, also called

Satyavrata, had attempted the abduction of the young wife of a citizen. For

this his father banished him, and condemned him to "the performance of a silent

penance for twelve years." During his exile there was a famine, and Trisanku

succoured and supported the wife and family of Vishvamitra, who were reduced to

the direst extremity in that sage's absence. Vasishtha, the family priest, had

done nothing to assuage the wrath of the aggrieved father, and this offended

Trisanku. At the end of his penance, being in want of meat, he killed

Vasishtha's wonder-working cow and partook of

her flesh; for this act Vasishtha gave him the name of Trisanku, 'guilty of

three sins.' Vishvamitra was grateful for the assistance rendered by Trisanku,

and gave him the choice of a boon. He begged that he might ascend bodily to

heaven. Vishvamitra then installed Trisanku in his father's kingdom, "and in

spite of the resistance of the gods and of Vasishtha he exalted the king alive

to heaven."

The Mahabharata and the Ramayana tell the story of Vishvamitra's amour with

Menaka. His austerities had so alarmed the gods that Indra sent this Apsaras to

seduce Vishvamitra "by the display of her charms and the exercise of all her

allurements." She succeeded, and the result was the birth of Sakuntala.

Vishvamitra at length became ashamed

of his passion, and "dismissing the nymph with gentle accents, he retired to the

northern mountains, where he practiced severe austerities for a thousand years."

He is said to have had an amour with the nymph Rambha.

The result of the struggle between Vasishtha and Vishvamitra is thus told in the

Ramayana: -- "Vasishtha, being propitiated by the gods, became reconciled to

Vishvamitra, and recognized his claim to all the prerogatives of a Brahman

Rishi. Vishvamitra, too, having attained the Brahmanical rank, paid all honour

to Vasishtha."

The Ramayana gives many particulars of Vishvamitra's connection with Rama. It

was Vishvamitra who prevailed upon King Dasaratha to send his son Rama for the

protection of the Brahmans against the attacks of Ravana and his Rakshasas. He

acted

as his guru, and returned with Rama to Ayodhya, where the prince obtained the hand of Sita.

In the Markandeya and other Puranas the story is told of Vishvamitra's

implacable persecution of King Harischandra (see Harischandra), one result of

which was that Vasishtha and Vishvamitra cursed each other so that they were

turned into birds, and fought together most furiously till Brahma put an end to

the conflict, restored them to their natural forms, and compelled them to be

reconciled.

 

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"...always look at the positive side of things... " sri sathya sai

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Than you so much for sending us the deity of Sage Vishwamitra.

 

Thank you so much - I guess this is the only way we can do the obeisance to this

great Sage Vishwamitra.

 

I guess we need to view all our Ancient sages (Biography)

 

Jay Vishwamitra Ki Jai ( Mankind will remember you with reverence)

 

Thank you so much Sister Doris

 

May Swami Bless you always

 

Sai Ram

 

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_________________________"...always look at the positive side of things... " sri sathya sai

sairamdoris (AT) (DOT) es