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This story of how Vishwamitra, being a Kshatriya, attained Brahminhood, appears in Dana-dharma Parva of Anushasana Parva.
Yudhishthira said,
“If, O prince, Brahmanahood be so difficult of attainment by the three classes (Kshatriyas, Vaisyas and Sudras), how then did the high souled Vishwamitra, O king, though a Kshatriya (by birth), attain to the status of a Brahmana? I desire to know this, O sire.
Bhishma said,
“Listen truly in detail, O son of Pritha, how in olden times Vishwamitra attained to the status of a Brahmana Rishi.”
There was, in the race of Bharata, a king of the name of Ajamida, who performed many sacrifices and was the best of all virtuous men. His son was the great king named Jahnu. Ganga was the daughter of this high-minded prince. The far-famed and equally virtuous Sindhudwipa was the son of this prince. From Sindhudwipa sprung the great royal sage Balakashwa. His son was named Vallabha who was like a second Dharma in embodied form. His son again was Kushika who was refulgent with glory like unto the thousand-eyed Indra. Kushika's son was the illustrious King Gadhi who, being childless and desiring to have a son born unto him, repaired to the forest. Whilst living there, a daughter was born unto him. She was called Satyavati by name, and in beauty of appearance she had no equal on Earth. The illustrious son of Chyavana, celebrated by the name of Richika, of the race of Bhrigu, endued with austere penances, sought the hand of this lady. Gadhi, the destroyer of his enemies, thinking him to be poor, did not bestow her in marriage upon the high-souled Richika. But when the latter, thus dismissed, was going away, the excellent king, addressing him said,
“If you give me a marriage dower you shall have my daughter for your wife.”
Richika said,
“What dower, O king, shall I offer you for the hand of your daughter? Tell me truly, without feeling any hesitation in the matter.”
Gadhi said,
“O descendant of Bhrigu, do you give me a thousand horses fleet as the wind, and possessing the hue of moon-beams, and each having one ear black.”
Then that mighty son of Chyavana who was the foremost of Bhrigu's race, besought the deity Varuna, the son of Aditi, who was the lord of all the waters.
“O best of gods, I pray to you to give me a thousand horses, all endued with the speed of the wind and with complexion as effulgent as the moon's, but each having one ear black.”
The god Varuna, the son of Aditi, said to that excellent scion of Bhrigu's race,
“Be it so. Wheresoever you shall seek, the horses shall arise (in your presence).”
As soon as Richika thought of them, there arose from the waters of Ganga thousand high-mettled horses, as lustrous in complexion as the moon. Not far from Kanyakubja, the sacred bank of Ganga is still famous among men as Ashwatirtha in consequence of the appearance of those horses at that place. Then Richika, that best of ascetics, pleased in mind, gave those thousand excellent horses unto Gadhi as the marriage-dower. King Gadhi, filled with wonder and fearing to be cursed, gave his daughter, bedecked with jewels, unto that son of Bhrigu. That foremost of regenerate Rishis accepted her hand in marriage according to the prescribed rites. The princess too was well-pleased at finding herself the wife of that Brahmana. That foremost of regenerate Rishis was well pleased with her conduct and expressed a wish to grant her boon.
The princess related this to her mother. The mother addressed the daughter that stood before her with down-cast eyes, saving,
“It behooves you, O my daughter, to secure a favour for me also from your husband. That sage of austere penances is capable of granting a boon to me, the boon, viz. of the birth of a son to me.”
Then, returning quickly to her husband Richika, the princess related to him all that had been desired by her mother. Richika said,
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