All the training prescribed for princes.
Smoke and flames issued from his body and enveloped the universe.
Cursed her and froze her to an image of stone for ten thousand years.
Sage Viswamitra.
It ill becomes the King to refuse having promised once. Born in the Ikshvaku line, he cannot do it. Having once said, 'I will do', he has no option but to do it.
When they are protected by Viswamitra, no Rakshasa can hurt them.
He is tapas in human form. Bravest of the brave and wisest of the wise, he is master of every weapon. In the three worlds there is not, and there will never be, any to equal him in martial or spiritual prowess.
Two secret mantras - Bala and Atibala, which had the virtue of guarding them from fatigue and harm.
He entrusted his kingdom to one of his sons and proceeded to the Himalayas to perform tapas.
The prince's marriage with Sita.
To rest on a stable spiritual foundation and function as a life-giving inspiration and guide.
Maharishi.
He received Viswamitra as Indra would welcome Brahma and touched his feet.
Vamana.
The shrill note of Rama's twanged bow.
She was filled with rage and amazement at the audacious intruder who dared enter her domain.
Delay in dealing the death-blow to the monster, as Rakshasas grow stronger at night.
She put to flight the soldiers and sought refuge at the feet of the sage.
They drank the divine payasam sent by the gods.
You have achieved the fruit of your great austerities. Indeed you are a Brahma Rishi, my brother.
In the east.
Viswamitra.
His cow Sabala.
He believed that such things of power and wealth by right belong to the King.
He ordered his men to seize the cow by force.
He pierced her chest with a deadly arrow.
The prince's marriage with Sita.
All the weapons available to the Devas, Gandharvas, Rishis, Yakshas, and the Demons.
The Brahmastra.
The world became wrapped in gloom, and the very immortals trembled with fear.
That which cannot be subdued by war.
Entered on another thousand years of even harder tapas.
To send Rama, the eldest of his warlike sons, to defeat the powerful Rakshasas Maricha and Subahu.
Ravana was invulnerable and invincible against Devas, Asuras, Gandharvas, and other such beings, but not against mankind.
To request him to be born as a man and put an end to Ravana and his atrocities.
He assured them that he would be born as four sons of King Dasaratha who was then performing a sacrifice for progeny.
A bowl of gold.
On a raft provided by the rishis.
On the bank of the river Sarayu.
To cleanse Indra from sin after he killed Vritra.
To the north of the Ganga, made fertile by the river Sarayu.
A boon granted by Brahma to her father, Suketu.
The celestial damsel Rambha.
He initially refused, expressing fear and anxiety, and offered to go with his army instead.
The earth and the entire heavens.
He set his foot on Mahabali's devoted head.
Because his head was blessed by the touch of Narayana's foot.
In the holy place where Viswamitra lived.
The Devas are pleased with you and are answering your prayer. Here is payasam sent by the gods for your wives. You will be blessed with sons if they drink this divine beverage.
The use of all the astras (divine weapons).
It is as necessary as the skin and the skeleton that preserve a fruit with its juice and its taste.
Rama of Kausalya, Bharata of Kaikeyi, and twins Lakshmana and Satrughna of Sumitra.
To the kingdom of Videha.
The Ramayana and the Mahabharata.
King Dasaratha.
The confluence of the Ganga and the Sarayu.
To Viswamitra's ashrama.
It is the place where the Lord Siva was long engaged in austerities and where the god of love Manmatha aimed his arrow at Siva and was turned to ashes by his wrath.
Any object of beauty, such as a river, hill, tree, or cloud.
The use, control, and recall of the various divine weapons.
They were quenched as they approached the rishi's staff and were absorbed by it.
It is the place where Lord Narayana performed tapas and was born as Vamana.
The terrible astra itself was merged in the rishi's staff, making both it and the holy man glow with the glory they had absorbed.
Kashyapa and his spouse Aditi.
That the Kshatriya's might in arms was of no use against Vasishtha.
To become a Brahma Rishi like Vasishtha.
Because the officiating priest was a once upon-a-time Kshatriya and the yajaman a stinking chandala.
That Vasishtha's sons do die and be reborn for seven generations in a tribe given to eating dog's flesh.
A horse sacrifice for progeny.
Vasishtha advised him to give up attempting the impossible.
It was clear that Viswamitra's yaga was a failure.
He took pity on the King converted by a curse into a chandala and offered him refuge.
Indra pushed him down, saying, 'Who are you, entering heaven with a chandala body?'
They came to terms and humbly entreated Viswamitra to desist.
It arose out of the way the divine payasam was divided among the King's wives.
When returned to the earth, they are transformed by the alchemy of Mother Earth into fruits, flowers, and wholesome things.
The great Sage Viswamitra.
To rid the forest of the great enemy, Tataka, who had turned it into a dreadful wilderness.
A great and unprecedented yaga.
He had no son.
To ascend to heaven in his very body.
Similar to present-day State-sponsored big scale conferences and exhibitions.
He shouted to Trisanku to stop there, and Trisanku's earthward descent came to an abrupt stop.
To punish the wicked, whether male or female, is the duty of kings for the sake of human safety.
Effecting the bodily translation of Trisanku to heaven.
He woke up a different person, an untouchable, ugly of form, attired in dirty clothes.
He subjected himself to still more rigorous austerities in order to be acknowledged as an equal of Vasishtha.
Sage Rishyasringa.
Trisanku in his chandala body rose heavenward.
A new starry horizon to the south as well as a new Indra and new Devas.
