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: VasishthaReciprocated in-batch, and 'rival' rather than 'enemy' because the feud is a contest of status between two sages rather than a war.Reference treatment: Vasishtha and Vishvamitra had been arch-enemies ever since the latter claimed Nandini the Celestial Cow and fought a battle in which Viswamitra was defeated. (secondary)
• escorted: RamaNon-symmetric. Everything Rama does before Ayodhya he does because this man came to his father and asked for him.Reference treatment: Vishvamitra takes Rama and Lakshmana to the forest. (secondary)
• escorted: LakshmanaSame.Reference treatment of Vishvamitra taking Rama and Lakshmana to the forest. (secondary)

Sources

• Vishvamitra is the sage who takes Rama and Lakshmana from Ayodhya into the forest, and the lifelong arch-enemy of Vasishtha since the dispute over the cow Nandini.: Reference treatments of Vishvamitra, of Vasishtha and of the Bala Kanda. (secondary)