Saptarshi
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The Saptarshi are the seven seers of ancient India who are extolled in the Vedas, and other Hindu literature such as the Skanda Purana. The Vedic Samhitas never enumerate these rishis by name, althoug
One variation of the Saptarshi: Vishvamitra (top left), Jamadagni (top centre), Gautama (top right), Vasishtha (centre right, beardless), Kashyapa (bottom left), Bharadvaja (bottom middle, in a yogic asana, upside down), Atri (bottom right). Pahari painting, from a Bandralta-Mankot workshop, c. 1700, displayed at the Government Museum and Art Gallery, Chandigarh.
Jamadagni
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Jamadagni is a sage in Hindu literature. He is regarded in Hindu tradition to be one of the Saptarishi in the 7th, and the current age of Manvantara.
Saptarshi
…7th prototypical Saptarishi. The earliest formal list of the seven rishis is given by Jaiminiya Brahmana 2.218–221: Agastya, Atri, Bharadvaja, Gautama, Jamadagni, Vasishtha, and Vishvamitra. This is followed by Brihadaranyaka Upanishad 2.2.6 with a slightly different list: Atri, Bharadvaja, Gautama, Jamadagni…
Jamadagni group of temples, on the bank of the Yamuna river in Thaan, Uttarkashi district.