This figure asked his parents if they accepted the crimes he committed on their behalf, to which they replied that he was responsible for them as well as his own sins. This figure's veneration is the focus of a Punjab-centered, dalit-based sect that identifies the Yoga Vasistha as one of its scriptu
This figure asked his parents if they accepted the crimes he committed on their behalf, to which they replied that he was responsible for them as well as his own sins. This figure's veneration is the focus of a Punjab-centered, dalit-based sect that identifies the Yoga Vasistha as one of its scriptures. While stopping near a stream, this figure was distraught when the male of a pair of mating cranes was killed by an arrow, prompting him to utter a curse against a hunter that became the first shloka. After being convinced to renounce his former life as a highwayman by Narada, this figure meditated for so many years that anthills grew around him. After receiving the exiled wife of the killer of Vali in his ashram, or hermitage, this figure teaches the boys Kusha and Lava to recite a work by him that recounts Jatayu's attempt to rescue a woman imprisoned on Lanka after she is tricked by a golden deer. For 10 points, name this legendary Sanskrit poet traditionally credited with composing the Ramayana.