Saptarsi or Sapta Rishi or Seven Rishis, Rajaji, etc
In an area where I find paucity, I'm looking for any quality studies that get as close as possible to who and what certain ancient Indian sages actually were or well might have been.
For my study on naadisaastra of different traditions, in different parts of India, I require as much information as I can get on the Sapta Rishis - the seven Rishis of Vedic times, sometimes called Saptarsi - Gautama, Bharadwaja, Vishwamitra, Jamadagni, Vasishta, Kasyapa, Atri; who also, in Astronomy, correspond to the constellation Ursa Major, commonly known as the Big Dipper,The Bear,The Plough ...
Other sages about whom I am always striving to get more decent FACTUAL information about are:
Bhrighu, Shuka, Shukra, Druva, Amsa, Agasthya, Kousika, Koumara, Kakbhusandi, Bhoga, Pullipani,Parasara, Sahadeva ...
Can you or other colleagues suggest?
Barry Pittard
p.s. With regard to my study of Nadisastra, I wish to make contact (especially by email) with scholars and others knowledgeable about Rajaji - Sri Chakravarty Rajagopalachari (1878-1972), the great Indian freedom fighter, scholar, former Governor West Bengal and Tamil Nadu, post Independence Governor General of India, social reformer, etc.
I have found some reference to him in my study and wonder whether the Sapta Rishi Nadi connection with Rajagopalachari is known to them.
Barry Pittard (Australia) |
Hinduism
