Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2935

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SUTĪKṢṆA. A hermit. While Śrī Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa were living in the forest with Sītā, they visited the hermits of hermits such as Śarabhaṅga, Sutīkṣṇa and others. Once Indra came to the hermitage of Sutīkṣṇa and invited him to the world of gods. It was at this time that Śrī Rāma came to the hermitage with Sītā and Lakṣmaṇa. When they were nearing the hermitage, Indra said “I shall see Rāma later when he has completed his great task.” Saying thus Indra went away from the hermitage. Śrī Rāma and his wife and brother asked the hermit, where in the forest, they were to live. The hermit told them that they could live in that hermitage itself. This hermit was the brother and disciple of Agastya. Once Sutīkṣṇa changed a wicked and cruel man named Duṣpaṇya to a good and righteous man by sprinkling holy water of Gaṅgā on him. (See under Duṣpaṇya). (Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Araṇya Kāṇḍa, Sarga 7).