Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1528

c8.1528

2) Vasiṣṭha's curse. Emperor Nimi was very generous with his gifts. He was interested in performing yajñas. The feeding hall that can be seen even today near the āśrama of Gautama Maharṣi was built by emperor Nimi. The emperor, a person of rājasic nature, decided to conduct a Yajña which would take a long time to end and which required much money for gifts; and he got his father Ikṣvāku's permission for it. Arrangements were made for the Yajña, and Ṛṣis like Bhṛgu, Aṅgiras Vāmadeva, Pulastya, Pulaha and Ṛcīka who were competent to perform yajña and great scholars in the Vedas were invited for the Yajña. Lastly he met his family preceptor Vasiṣṭha and told him thus: "Oh preceptor! I have made all arrangements for a Yajña, which it is my desire should last for five hundred years. You would also come with me and see that the Yajña is duly performed."