Vasishtha

He is the family priest of the Ikshvaku kings — which is to say Rama's own house priest — and one of the seven sages, and this record claims neither, because the treatment consulted gives him only as the other party to the feud. That is a thin record for one of the largest figures in the tradition, and the census says so rather than the record pretending otherwise.

Domains

• vedic sagehood

Relations

• rival: VishvamitraReciprocated in-batch.Reference treatment of the enmity of Vasishtha and Vishvamitra over the cow Nandini. (secondary)

Sources

• Vasishtha is the sage who is Vishvamitra's arch-enemy, from the dispute over the celestial cow Nandini.: Reference treatment of the Vasishtha and Vishvamitra feud. (secondary)