Every myth carries a truth older than the civilization that told it.
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Vasishtha — greatest of the seven saptarishi, guru of Rama's solar dynasty and owner of the wish-cow Nandini, whose serene forbearance against Vishvamitra
Vishvamitra — the warrior-king who renounced his throne and won the rank of Brahmarishi through fierce penance. Seer of the Gayatri Mantra, builder of a
Markandeya — the boy-sage whose devotion led Shiva to defeat Yama and grant him eternal youth. The deathless witness who survives cosmic dissolution and
Prahlada — the asura boy-saint whose unbreakable devotion to Vishnu survived every torture his demon-father devised, summoning the man-lion Narasimha. His
The myth of Vritra: the great serpent-demon of drought in Hindu myth, the cosmic dragon who imprisoned the world's waters, coiling around the mountains to
Tarakasura wrung from Brahma a boon that only a son of Shiva could kill him — forcing the gods to engineer the birth of the war-god Kartikeya, his
Banasura, the thousand-armed asura king and ardent devotee of Shiva, warred with Krishna over his daughter's love — and was spared when Shiva himself
Hidimba, a man-eating rakshasa of the Mahabharata, died wrestling Bhima — and his sister's love for Bhima produced the heroic half-rakshasa giant
Kumbhakarna, Ravana's mountainous giant brother cursed to sleep half the year, woke to condemn his king's injustice — then fought and died for him out of
The rakshasa — Hindu shape-shifting, flesh-eating night-demons and masters of illusion. From the cannibal Hidimba to the righteous Vibhishana, a full
