[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.3972 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3972](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3972) 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. - [Previous: c9.3971](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3971) - [Next: c9.3973](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3973) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3972](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3972) · Pramāṇa