Vishvamitra

He is a king who becomes a brahmarishi by sheer effort, which is the tradition's one great story about mobility between the castes, and the record does not tell it because the treatments consulted give the escort and the feud. The composer of the Gayatri mantra is likewise not claimed here.

Domains

• vedic sagehood

Relations

• rival: Vasishtha
• escorted: Rama
• escorted: Lakshmana

Sources

• Reference treatments of Vishvamitra, of Vasishtha and of the Bala Kanda.