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Gritsamada is the traditional seer of the second book of the Rigveda, honoured for luminous hymns addressed to Indra and Brahmanaspati.
Kanva is a Rigvedic seer and head of a renowned hermitage, remembered for many hymns and for raising the maiden Shakuntala with great tenderness.
Angiras is a primordial Vedic seer associated with sacred fire and a great body of hymns, and the forefather of an illustrious lineage of sages.
Bhrigu is a Prajapati and founder of one of the great rishi lineages, linked to Vedic hymns and to traditions of astrology and dharmic reflection.
Agastya is a revered Vedic seer remembered for great tapasya, for carrying Vedic learning to the south, and for his partnership with the seer Lopamudra.
Vasishtha, foremost among the Saptarishis and family guru of the Ikshvaku kings, is linked to a whole book of the Rigveda and to the wisdom of the Yoga Vasishtha.
Jamadagni, a Saptarishi of the Bhrigu lineage and father of Parashurama, is remembered for fierce austerity and for stories that probe the meaning of dharma.
Gautama is a Saptarishi and Vedic seer whose name the tradition links to the sacred Godavari river and to deep lessons of patience and forgiveness.
Vishvamitra began as a king and, through extraordinary tapasya, became a Brahmarshi. Tradition links him to the revered Gayatri Mantra and to the early guidance of Rama.
Bharadvaja is a Saptarishi traditionally linked to a whole book of the Rigveda and to the love of learning, healing and disciplined study.
Atri is a Saptarishi whose family is traditionally linked to a whole book of the Rigveda. With his wife Anasuya, he is remembered as a model of devotion, austerity and balance.
Kashyapa is honoured among the Saptarishis as a great progenitor sage whose lineage, according to tradition, gave rise to many orders of beings. This overview explains his place in Sanatana Dharma.
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