Story of Sage Vishwamitra

In lunar dynasty,was a king kausik also known as Visvamitra.Kng possessed extra ordinary qualities and ruled the kingdom well once the king went on a tour of his kingdom with a large army . As he was passing a forest he came across the hermitage of Sage Vaisistha .The sage offered him a grand reception and requested him to be his guest.The king declined offer as the sage would not have been able to feed the large army.Sage told the king not to worry and informed him that the Sage had wish fulfilling cow (kamadehnu) sabala .The Sage called out the divine cow . kamadehnu was Born during churning of the ocean and was presented to Sage Vaisitha .Vasistha told the cow to make an elaborate feast for the king's army and an elaborate feast appeared . The king and his army enjoyed the feast .

The king was impressed by the cow's power and was convinced that the cow would be more useful to a king than a sage . he further added anything precious belonged to the king and put his stake on sabala Visvamitra politely declined to give sabala to the king . The king became angry and ordered his soldiers to capture sabala . Captured by the kings men sabala broke down on the thought of being taken away from her father like sage . She ran back to the sage wanting to know the reason as to why he had abandoned her . Vasistha told her that he not abandoned her and told her to make army of her own . Sabala made her own army and defeated the king .

Visvamitra the went into forest and performed 12 years of penance . Lord siva was pleased with the penance and gave him all the astras . Visvamitra went to Vaisistha and sent all Astras towards him Vasistha absorbed all the astras using his Bramhadanda . Visvamitra then went south .he did a lot of penance to get the title of rajya rsi . During this time Trisanku (a king ) came to Visvamitra asked him to send Trisanku to heaven in his body form .the devas denied trisanku entry in to the heavens .Annoyed at this act Visvamitra used all his powers to create a heaven for Trisanku.

Visvamitra then did a lot of penance to become a maharsi and then a Bramharsi. Visvamitra ,While he was performing penance ,was attracted to aphsara sent by Indra to distract him. Visvamitra spent 10 years with her and gave birth to sankuntala After he became a Maharsi Indra sent another apsara Rambha ,but Vissvamitra cursed her to became a stone for 1000 years . then after a lot of tapas, he became a bramharsi a person with total control over anger .He then became eligible for keeping Sabala but he no more wished to keep her. —