The Fabled Vasistha - Visvamitra Encounter: Devudu Narasimha Sastry's Profound Transformation of a Foundational Story

Devudu Narasimha Sastri's literary crowning glory, "Mahabrahmana" gives us a memorable depiction of the famous Vasistha-Visvamitra story.

THE STORY OF THE RISHIS VASISTHA AND VISVAMITRA is unarguably one of the more lofty summits of our cultural and literary heritage. Occurring first in the Rg Veda, it is as ancient and as exalted as our spiritual civilisation. “Ancient” in the sense of “perennial.” The incredible transformations that this story has undergone from that civilisational dawn…