The Sunday found me in august
company of a bunch of open minded peopled discussing Mythology without
prejudices, now that’s a interesting place you will agree in this day when
rabble rousing is so the in thing.
The talk was headed by Mr.
Agarwal who has written a few books on the saptarishis and is a doctor who is
now more into looking at pulses of Mythology then patients.
Did you know Saptarishis
changed every Manwantar?
The saptarishis are the 7
stars that you see in the sky and it is said the saptarishis are the ones who
live there,
Now what is a manwantar?
A specific Manu who is a
creation of Brahma rules each Manwantar
Each manwantar is 306720000
human years.
The current sages of the
manwantar now are :
ATRI - Atri and anasuya (not my ex GF) lived in chitrakoot, chandravanshis are from Atri’s lineage.
BHARADWAJ - He led ram to chitrakoot, told him what
a lovely place it is. He was father of Dronacharya.
He conducted a Putrakameshthi
yagna for Bharat to be born (Bharat)
GAUTAM - the man of Ahilya, he lived near current
day trumbekashwar, he had 5 sons, one was priest of Janak anjani (hanumans
mother) is daughter of Gautama and ahaliya.
JAMDAGNI - was father of parashuram, and was related
to vishwamitra, and married to Renuka, they lived in Janapaw near Indore, had 5
sons, he is credited with having discovered slippers and umbrella (the story
goes that the sun was very hot and he picked up his bow to shoot at sun when
the sun gifted him that which would help the earthlings be able to handle the suns
heat)
KASHYAP – Grandson of Brahma,
he was from Kashmir, and was the one who populated the earth, Aditya the mom of
gods were his wife, Danu, mom of danavs was also his wife, he is father of all species
of life, and no there was no bestiality involved. He officiated parashurams Ashwamed
yagna
VISHWAMITRA – he was born a
king, was materialistic, he ran into vashist and got converted to the spiritual
side of things he got to know about the cow Nandi and attempted to grab Nandi, but was defeated by nandi’s army that originated from nandis body parts
He is the only saptarishi who
was born a human, he lived in kanauj in UP and composed 3rd mandal
of Rig-Veda, gayatrimantra was opened to the masses by him,
He gave Ram and Laxman knowledge
of weapons and how to go for long without food.
VASHIST – he taught Rama, was
kulguru of Suryavanshis, lived near manila was a manasputra and lived in times
of raja Harish Chandra wife was Arundhati, had 100 sons he composed yog puran
agnipuran, and had tussle with vishwamitra
The saptarishis for the next
manwantar are:
PARASHURAM
ASHWATHAMA
RISHSINGRA
GALA
DEEPTIMAT
KRIPACHARYA
VED VYAS
I am sure there are things you did not know about
that you do know now
