Many rishis were women.

In the Nyaya Kusumanjali, this is discussed against the proposition of the Mimamsa school that let us assume there were many demigods ( devas ) and sages ( rishis ) in the beginning, who wrote the Vedas and created the world.

In the Nyayakusumanjali, this is discussed against the proposition of the Mimamsa school — that let us assume there were many gods ( Devas ) and sages ( rishis ) in the beginning, who wrote the Vedas and created the world.

Many ancient rishis were in fact women rishikas in Sanskrit.

According to traditional views, the hymns of the Rigveda and other Vedic hymns were divinely revealed to the rishis, who were considered to be seers or " hearers " ( Śruti means " what is heard ") of the Veda, rather than " authors ".

These twenty-one rishis were the propounders of the Smritis.

In ancient India it is said that yajna or vedic rituals of chanting manthras and offering were performed by rishis to bring sudden bursts of rain fall in rain starved regions.

Traditionally, they were passed down orally and adapted from generation to generation by sacred sages called rishis, before eventually emerging written in Vedic, an ancient form of Sanskrit.

The rishis and munis and the gods then requested that she recover the Vedas, which were in possession of Durgam.

Regarded by tradition as the abode of Vedic rishis.

In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga ( I. 245 ) section the Buddha pays respect to Jamadagni by declaring that the Veda in its true form was declared to the Vedic rishis " Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi ( Jamadagni ), Angiras, Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu " and because that true Veda was altered by some priests he refused to pay homage to the altered version.

In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga ( I. 245 ) section the Buddha pays respect to Angiras by declaring that the Veda in its true form was declared to the Vedic rishis " Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi, Angiraso, Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu " and because that true Veda was altered by some priests he refused to pay homage to the altered version.

In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga ( I. 245 ) section the Buddha pays respect to Vishwamitra by declaring that the Veda in its true form was declared to the Vedic rishis " Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi, Angiraso, Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu " and because that true Veda was altered by some priests he refused to pay homage to the altered version.

In the Buddhist Vinaya Pitaka of the Mahavagga ( I. 245 ) section the Buddha pays respect to Vishwamitra by declaring that the Veda in its true form was declared to the Vedic rishis " Atthako, Vâmako, Vâmadevo, Vessâmitto, Yamataggi, Angiras, Bhâradvâjo, Vâsettho, Kassapo, and Bhagu " and because that true Veda was altered by some priests he refused to pay homage to the altered version.

Later on, Chopra explained yoga as rooted in " consciousness alone " which is a universal, non-sectarian eternal wisdom of life expounded by Vedic rishis long before historic Hinduism ever arose.

The sacred Yajñopavītam has close and essential connection with the concept of pravaras related to brahmin gotra system, which reflects the number of most excellent Vedic rishis belonging to that particular gotra to which the wearer of sacred Yajñopavītam belongs.

Thus, it seems as though some believe that Tirthaji may not have found the sūtras within the Vedas, but that he received them spiritually as the rishis did, which should validate them as Vedic.

The cultural tradition of naming ' related groups ; lineages ' or " Gotra " of people after the founding rishi who are also called ' fathers ' ( Sanskrit: Pitrs ; particularly the " seven fathers ") amongst the Saptarishi is also evident in Vedic astrology where the Saptarishi ( seven rishis ) are the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

Let us discharge our prescribed Vedic duties to our elders, ancestors, rishis, creatures, and gods.

Alternate meanings describe Maharishi as a collective name that refers to the seven rishis or saptarishis ( including Maharishi Bhrigu ) cited in the scriptures of Rig Veda and the Puranas, or any of the several mythological seers that are referenced in Vedic writings and associated with the seven stars of the constellation Ursa Major.

The rishis and munis took refuge in the caves of the Himalayas, and meditated upon the Supreme Devi.

Gautama used to sow rice in the surrounding fields of his Ashram in the morning, reap the crop in the afternoon and with it fed a large group of rishis, who took shelter in his Ashram on account of the famine.

Once some rishis headed by Kasyapa began to perform a sacrifice on the banks of the Ganges.

The text presents itself as a discourse given by the sage Manu, to a congregation of seers, or rishis, who beseeched him, after the great floods, in the vedic state of ' Brahmavarta ', in India, some 10, 000 years ago, to tell them on, how to face such calamities in future by organising themselves and lead an organised life with the " guidelines for all the social classes ".

The final version of Vyasa's work is today's Mahābhārata, structured as a narration by Ugrasrava Sauti who was a professional story teller, to an assembly of ( rishis ) who had just attended the 12 years sacrifice of Saunaka also named as kulapati in the forest of Naimisha.

For instance, in the Rigveda there is a list of women rishis.

This enmity culminated in a great sacrifice he had been hosting, one to which he invited all and sundry, family and allies, gods and rishis, courtiers and subjects.

The main rishis recorded in the Brahmanas and the Rigveda-Anukramanis include Gritsamada, Vishvamitra, Vamadeva, Atri, Bharadvaja, Vasishta, Angiras, Kaṇva.

Vishnu and the rishis brokered a truce, with Indra swearing that he would not attack Vritra with anything made of metal, wood or stone, nor anything that was dry or wet, or during the day or the night.

Brahma prayed to lord Shiva to pardon Daksha and to mend the broken limbs of gods and rishis.

There Daksha looked on him with reverence, the rite was duly performed, and then all the gods and rishis saluted Shiva and departed to their places.

Not being able to answer the question, the rishis approached Sage Bhrugu, who according to Vedas is believed to have an extra eye in the sole of his foot.

Thereupon, the sage concluded that Lord Vishnu was the most supreme of the Trimurti and told the rishis the same.

Brahmarshi Vishvamitra ( " friend of the world "; ; ; ; ; Thai: Swamit ; Burmese: Bodaw ; Javanese: Wiswamitra ) is one of the most venerated rishis or sages of ancient times in India.

The Puranas mention that only 24 rishis since antiquity have understood the whole meaning of, and thus wielded the whole power of, the Gayatri Mantra.

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