Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3972
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3972
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I am known as Vasiṣṭha for two reasons. I am ‘Vasumān’. The Śrutis say that Air, Earth etc. are Vasu. I have become Vasiṣṭha because I have brought under control the Vasus beginning with Aṇimā (the power of reducing the body to an atom). See what Arundhatī herself says, about the meaning of the name Arundhatī.