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Bhrigu
Bhrigu Maharishi
One of the great seers and a son of Brahma. In the Bhagavata he is chosen by the sages on the Sarasvati to find out…
Anasuya
Anusuya
Wife of the sage Atri, held up as the model of a chaste and austere wife. When the three gods come to her hermitage as…
Narada
A mind-born son of Brahma, the wandering divine sage and musician who carries news between the worlds. His best-known…
Atri
One of the seven great seers, husband of Anasuya and father of Dattatreya. In the Bhagavata he prays to the three gods…
Durvasa
The quick-tempered sage whose curse, after Indra's elephant trampled his garland, drained the gods of strength and…
Vasishtha
Vashishtha
A mind-born son of Brahma and one of the great seers; in the Shiva Purana's Sandhya story the reborn Arundhati becomes…
Agastya
The southern sage; in the Gajendra story his curse turns the proud Pandya king Indradyumna into an elephant.
Kapila
The sage whose glance burned Sagara's sixty thousand sons to ash when they accused him of stealing the sacrificial…
Shukra
Shukracharya
Preceptor of the asuras who warned Bali that the dwarf was Vishnu and that the gift would cost him everything.
The Kumaras
Sanaka · Sanandana · Sanatana · Sanat Kumara
Brahma's four mind-born sons who look like children forever; turned away at Vaikuntha's gate, they cursed Jaya and…
Jahnu
The sage who drank the descending Ganga when she flooded his hermitage and released her from his ear, giving her the…
Shantanu (sage of the Kalika Purana)
The sage husband of Amogha in the Brahmaputra origin story, not the Kuru king of the Mahabharata; he brings the child…