Ṛṣis and Ṛṣikās
The seers of India, men and women: those who saw the hymns of the Veda, taught in the Upaniṣads, and walk through the Rāmāyaṇa, the Mahābhārata and the Purāṇas.
Contents
Seers of the Veda
Seers of the Epics and Purāṇas
The Ṛṣikās
Seers of the Veda
Agastya
- Born from the Jar
- The Seer of the Hymns
- The Ancestors in the Pit
- Lopāmudrā
- Three Kings and a Demon's Feast
- The King Who Rode on Sages
- The Silent King
- The Ocean Drunk Dry
- Sent to the South
- The Mountain That Sank
- The Crow and the River
- The Image at Kuṟṟālam
- Rāma Comes to the Hermitage
- The Heart of the Sun
- Śambūka and the King Who Ate His Own Flesh
- The Thousand Names
Vasiṣṭha
Viśvāmitra
- Gādhi's Son
- The Cow He Could Not Take
- A Heaven of His Own Making
- The Rākṣasa and Vasiṣṭha's Sons
- The Boy at the Sacrificial Post
- Menakā
- Rambhā
- The Brahmarṣi
- King Hariścandra
- The Seer of the Hymns
- The Prince He Asked For
- On the Road to the Hermitage
- The Weapons and the Sacrifice
- The Road to Mithilā
- The Teacher He Chose for Rāma
Yājñavalkya
Atri
Bharadvāja
Bhṛgu
Seers of the Epics and Purāṇas
Vālmīki
Vyāsa
Nārada
Mārkaṇḍeya
Kapila
Śuka
Parāśara
Aṣṭāvakra
Gautama
Jamadagni
The Ṛṣikās
Lopāmudrā
Arundhatī
Maitreyī
Anasūyā
Devahūti
Viśvavārā
Vāk Āmbhṛṇī
Sulabhā
Cūḍālā
Madālasā
- The Prince and His Two Friends
- The Horse That Fell from the Sky
- The Boar and the Pit
- The Girl on the Golden Couch
- The Wedding in Pātāla
- The Weapon of Tvaṣṭṛ
- The Ornament at His Throat
- Not in This Birth
- The Nāga King's Austerity
- Born from the Middle Hood
- The Woman He Was Told Not to Touch
- You Are Pure, You Have No Name
- The Naming of Alarka
- The Lullaby of a King
- The Ring