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	Galava (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Viswamitra was annoyed, and told him to bring 800 white horses, each having one fl ear.
		When Viswamitra retired to the woods, he resigned his hermitage and his horses to Ashtaka, and Galava having taken Madhavi back to her father, himself retired to the forest as his preceptor had done.
		According to the Harivansa, Galava was son of Viswamitra, and that sage in a time of great distress tied a cord round his waist and offered him for sale.
	www.mythfolklore.net /india/encyclopedia/galava.htm (445 words)

	Viswamitra (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Brahmarishi Viswamitra is one of the seven venerated sages of Hindu Mythology.
		This angered Viswamitra so much that he wanted to defeat Sage Vasishta who was a Brahmarishi and take possession of the cow himeslf.
		It is very interesting to see all the challenges that Viswamitra faced in his life to become a Brahmarishi, before eventually giving up the greed to possess the cow.
	bopedia.com /en/wikipedia/v/vi/viswamitra.html (477 words)

	Ramayana for children
		Viswamitra blessed Dasharatha and asked him to send Rama to kill the Rakshasas who were disturbing his fire sacrifice.
		Viswamitra completed the sacrifice and the sages rejoiced and blessed the princes.
		Viswamitra introduced Rama and Lakshmana to Janaka and requested that he show the bow of Siva to Rama so that he could try to string it.
	www.veda.harekrsna.cz /encyclopedia/ramayana.htm (6047 words)

	E N C Y C L O P E D I A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Viswamitra's intended sacrifice was strongly resisted by the sons of Vasishtha, but he reduced them to ashes, and condemned them to be born again as outcasts for seven hundred births.
		While Satya-vrata was a Chandala, and the famine was raging, he supported Viswamitra's family by hanging deer's flesh on a tree on the bank of the Ganges, so that they might obtain food without the degradation of receiving it from a Chandala : for this charity Viswamitra raised him to heaven.
		Viswamitra was gratified by the assistance which Satya- vrata bad rendered to his family; “he installed him in his father's kingdom,...and, in spite of the resistance of the gods and of Vasishtha, exalted the king alive to heaven.”
	www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopS3.asp (1590 words)

	VISWAMITRA
		Viswamitra told them that in the Himalayas there is a particular mountain called the Kailasha and on that mountain there is a lake by name manasa sarovara.
		Viswamitra narrated this story and said that originally she was yakshini but as a result of the curse of Agasthya she became a rakshasi.
		Viswamitra had also been establishing the truth that is contained in the statement that sin is not distinct and unconnected with one’s actions.
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	IndiaPlaza MOVIES! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		The hundred sons of Viswamitra, enraged at seeing their father humiliated thus, attacked Vasistha, but all except for the eldest, all the others were immediately burnt to ashes by the powerful sages.
		Viswamitra now realized that with all this austerities he was still no match for Vasistha and after installing his remaining son as the ruler once again left to perform more penances.
		Greatly attracted by the beauty of Menaka, Viswamitra agreed to marry her and thus he spent one hundred years with her completely immersed in sense gratification.
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	RAMAYANA retold by C (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Wild with rage, Viswamitra got into his chariot and, taking up his bow, rained arrows on the soldiers brought forth by the cow, but their strength was inexhaustible, and the royal forces suffered utter defeat.
		Viswamitra taught Rama the use, control and recall of the various divine weapons and Rama in his turn imparted the knowledge to Lakshmana.
		Viswamitra was under a vow of silence, and could not answer, but the rishis, his jouniors, told the princes that they should be ceaselessly vigilant for six nights and days to safeguard the sacrifice.
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	IndiaPlaza MOVIES! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		When Lord Rama was a young boy of sixteen, Viswamitra becomes his spiritual master (with the blessings of Vasistha) and imparts the knowledge of many celestial weapons to Him.
		On the instructions of Viswamitra, Lord Rama kills the demons Taraka which later sets the scene of the abduction of Sita and the annihilation of Ravana and his demoniac forces.
		In the Srimad Bhagavatam (8.13.5), Sukhadeva Goswami states: Kasyapa, Atri, Vasistha, Viswamitra, Gautama, Jamadagni and Bharadvaja are known as the seven sages.
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	Shri Rama :- Prologue (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		One day the great ancient sage Viswamitra visited king Dasaratha to ask for sons Shri Rama and Lakshmana to help in the eradication of the demons who were harassing the sages in their holy duties and sacrificial operations by interfering therein and defiling them in their hermitages.
		"Viswamitra is a very wise sage with immense potentialities of a great sage and he was not making naive request in order to secure the help of Shri Rama and Lakshmana to rid the scourge of the demons to the saints in the forest.
		This received approval of preceptor Vasistha and sage Viswamitra both of whom were happy about it and the hearty unanimous decision taken by the approbation of the heads and seniors of the two Royal families present.
	www.indiangyan.com /books/otherbooks/shri_rama/index.shtml (1495 words)

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		Viswamitra laughed and said that Vasishta seemed to be carried away because Harischandra was the latter's patron.
		Viswamitra forthwith proceeded to the capital of Harischandra's kingdom, Ayodhya and learnt that the king was proceeding on a hunting expedition.
		Viswamitra held Harischandra to his words and went the next day to gain control of the kingdom and all the palace wealth.
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	The Mahabharata, Book 13: Anusasana Parva: Anusasanika Parva: Section III
		For not having honoured their eldest brother Devarat, whom Viswamitra got as a son from the gods, the other fifty brothers of his were cursed, and all of them became Chandalas.
		The curse was that Viswamitra would partake of canine flesh by officiating as the priest of one who himself was the partaker of such flesh.
		It is said that at a time of great scarcity, Viswamitra was obliged to resort to dog's flesh for food, and that as he was about to cook it, Indra pounced upon it and took it away.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/m13/m13a003.htm (572 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba - Discourses - Anger is the Greatest Enemy, Summer Showers in Brindavan, May 1972
		In the case of Viswamitra, we know that all the good he acquired by Tapas was nullified by this one evil, anger.
		Viswamitra, who was hiding behind a bush with a sword in his hand to stab Vasishta, happened to hear the glowing tributes Vasishta was paying to Viswamitra.
		Vasishta was not aware that Viswamitra was hiding behind the bush and in his normal manner was describing the good qualities of Viswamitra's Tapas which he compared to the moonlight.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /askbaba/discourses/d1972/d19720500-18.html (3201 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba - Rama Katha Rasavahini - The Rama Story - The Call and the First Victory
		Viswamitra was at his wits' end; he went to the capital city of the empire, Ayodhya, to meet the Ruler himself.
		Meanwhile, the news that Viswamitra was available near their residences and that he had with him two heroic sons of the Emperor spread wide and many rushed to welcome them and receive them in their own hermitages.
		Viswamitra was gratified at this act of hospitality; he appreciated the depth of their devotion and their sense of surrender; he allowed them to depart, loaded with blessings.
	www.ineval.org /sai/Teachings/Ramakataras/r1008.html (9410 words)

	Shri Rama :- Marriage (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		And, at the request of sage Viswamitra, Shri Rama and Lakshmana were allowed by the king to accompany him to help rid the sages living in the forests of the scourge of demons.
		They proceeded to the hermitage of sage Viswamitra where they heard that the Swayambara of Baidehi (Sita) daughter of the Bideha king, Janaka, was being held and on the suggestion of sage Viswamitra they all proceeded to see the Swayambara festival.
		Shri Rama and Lakshmana sought sage Viswamitra's permission to call on father Dasaratha and the mothers and brothers and others who had arrived from Ayodhya, and on being so permitted Shri Rama and Lakshmana went to their rooms in the palace premises and met and paid homage to all the seniors.
	www.indiangyan.com /books/otherbooks/shri_rama/marriage.shtml (984 words)

	A Lie Never Justifiable - A Study in Ethics by H. Clay Trumbull eBook by BookRags
		Viswamitra, the tempter and accuser as represented in the Vedas, appears in the council of the gods, face to face with Indra.
		After this, Viswamitra demands the return by Harischandra of the gold which has been already surrendered, claiming that its surrender was not according to the contract.
		In this emergency Viswamitra suggests, that if Harischandra will only deny that he owes this amount to his enemy the debt shall at once be canceled.
	www.bookrags.com /ebooks/10591/9.html (372 words)

	The Mahabharata, Book 5: Udyoga Parva: Bhagwat Yana Parva: Section CVI
		In ancient times, in order to test Viswamitra, who was then engaged in ascetic austerities Dharma personally came to him, having assumed the form of the Rishi, Vasishtha.
		And beholding the great Rishi Viswamitra, who was endued with high wisdom, standing there with that food on his head, himself subsisting all the while on air, Dharma accepted that food which was still warm and fresh.
		Viswamitra then came back and sought an encounter with Vasishtha, but the latter by the aid only of his Brahmanical (bamboo) stick baffled the fiercest weapons of Viswamitra, of even celestial efficacy.
	www.sacred-texts.com /hin/m05/m05106.htm (634 words)

	The Mahabharata, Book 12: Santi Parva: Apaddharmanusasana Parva: Section CXLI
		In this connection is cited the old story of the discourse between Viswamitra and the Chandala in a hamlet inhabited by Chandalas.
		Viswamitra then, of cultivated understanding, took away that haunch of dog's meat.
		Viswamitra, however, having completed the rites in honour of the gods and the Pitris and having gratified them duly, himself ate that meat.
	www.ibiblio.org /sripedia/ebooks/mb/m12/m12a140.htm (3229 words)

	Viswamitra
		Viswamitra was the Rajaguru for King Sudas for sometime, after whose departure sage Vasishta occupied that position.
		Viswamitra wanted to live on the banks of river Gomathi but Sudas was reluctant to let him go.
		Viswamitra, after ruminating for a while, spoke to the rivers (In olden times mountains and rivers were said to have a human form also -- when Himavan was in human form, Parvathi was born to him).
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	E N C Y C L O P E D I A (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		He also gave another mess to her mother that she might bear a son with the character of a warrior.
		The women changed the messes, and so Jamad-agni, the son of Richika, was born as a warrior-Brahman, and Viswamitra, son of the Kshatriya Gadhi, was born as a priest.
		The Maha-bharata relates that Jamad-agni engaged deeply in study and “obtained entire possession of the Vedas.” He went to King Renu or Prasena-jit of the Solar race and demanded of him his daughter Renuka.
	www.mypurohith.com /Encyclopedia/EnclopJ.asp (2208 words)

	Bala08 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sunassepa urged Viswamitra to show him a way by which he can be left alive but Ambarisha would gain the fruits of the sacrifice.
		Viswamitra revealed to him two magical spells and told him to recite them when he was tied to the sacrificial post.
		Concluding that by then Viswamitra had gained control over all the emotions, the Devas approached Brahma and urged him to grant the sage the status of Brahmarishi.
	www.ramayan.com /nailart/bala/bala08_1.htm (232 words)

	Summer course, 19 May 2002 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Janaka sent a message to Viswamitra, praying to him to come and attend the function,where the bow of Siva was to be lifted and strung.
		Viswamitra was defeated in the battle, and all his sons died.
		Viswamitra asked Rama and Lakshmana to marry without waiting for permission of Dasaratha, but Rama and Lakshmana were very firm.
	www.sathyasai.org /discour/2002/d020519.html (1708 words)

	R E L I G I O U S A R T I C L E S
		Sage Viswamitra, who was one of the invited rishis, arrived in Mithila accompanied by Rama and Lakshmana who were serving the sage in his hermitage at that time.
		Enchanted by the couteous manners of Rama and Lakshmana, Janaka asked Viswamitra who they were, to which the sage replied they were the sons of King Dasaratha of Ayodhya and narrated how they had protected his own yaga and effortlessly destroyed the rakshasas who were disrupting his yaga.
		Opening the box, he lifted the bow effortlessly, as if it were a garland of flowers, and resting one end of it against his toe, he bent and strung it and drew the string back with such irresistible force that the mighty blow snapped into two pieces.
	www.nyganeshtemple.org /relarticles/rt_sitakalyanam.htm (577 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba - Sathya Sai Vahini - Eternal Truths - Page 128 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Sage Viswamitra discovered the mantra named Gayathri, which is addressed to the energy of the Sun, Surya.
		The Gayathri enabled Viswamitra to use rare weapons which bowed to his will when the mantra was repeated with faith.
		Viswamitra was a scientist who had recognised this truth.
	www.ineval.org /sai/Teachings/SathyaSai/sathya128.html (289 words)

	Sathya Sai Baba - Rama Katha Rasavahini - The Rama Story - Winning Sita
		Viswamitra rose early and led the boys to the river for ablutions.
		The news of the arrival of Viswamitra was communicated to Sumathi by messengers and he rushed forward to the Sage, with a retinue of courtiers, ministers, scholars and priests, praying that he should enter the City and sanctify the Royal palace by his stay.
		Then, Viswamitra narrated the incidents that had taken place from his appearance at the court of Dasaratha, up to the Yajna and the heroic way in which the young boys had stood guard and foiled the attempts of the demons to desecrate the rituals.
	laluni.helloyou.ws /askbaba/ramakatharasavahini/r1009.html (17514 words)

	Viswamitra
		Brahmarshi[?] Viswamitra is one of the seven venerated sages of Hinduism.
		He is a kshatriya by birth, but has transcended into the brahmin priestly caste with his tough penance.
		Viswamitra has created his own version of Swarga, called Trisanku Swarga, as one of his refugees is repudiated a place in it.
	www.fastload.org /vi/Viswamitra.html (112 words)

	Sri Sathya Sai Books & Publication Trust (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		Then Viswamitra thought that it would be very difficult for the royal princes, who are used to palatial comforts and luxuries, to keep awake day and night to guard the Yajna.
		Viswamitra was very happy that he could complete the performance of the Yajna without any interruption.
		At the instance of Viswamitra, Rama gently walked towards the bow, and raised it with His left hand.
	www.sssbpt.org /Pages/Prasanthi_Nilayam/ramanavami05_Discourse.htm (2709 words)

	SAI SUDHA – OCTOBER – 1944 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-20)
		At that time Deva Rishi Narada, Viswamitra, Vasista and many others were present to give some important counsels to the king.
		Viswamitra was moved by these words and saved Rama from killing Hanuman with the Brahmastra.
		Viswamitra was very much pleased and blessed Hanuman.
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