सदस्य:Shubham Pandey

Types of Rishis (seers)

How many types of Rishis (seers) are there in our scriptures? In fact the English word seer itself came from the Sanskrit word Rishi. Seer is the mirror image of Rsi.

Of the ten Mandalas of the Rig Veda, eight are attributed to eight Rishis or his family:

Rig Veda

Mandala 2: Grtsamada (Brigu)

Mandala 3: Visvamitra

Mandala 4: Gautama (Vamadeva)

Mandala 5: Atri

Mandala 6: Bharadwaja

Mandala 7:Vasistha

Mandala 8: Kanva

Mandala 9: Angira

Mandala 1 and 10 are attributed various Rishis