Kauśika

Kauśika

Kauśika is a name used for more than one brāhmaṇa in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.

People

• Kauśika Jāpaka: the son of the ṛshi Paippalāda, who did japa for a thousand years and showed japa-yoga to be the highest path to moksha. Mahābhārata, Śānti Parva, Mokshadharma Parva, Chapters 196–200
• Kauśika the Brāhmaṇa: a brāhmaṇa student of the Veda who killed a cāṭaka bird with a glance in anger, learned from a pativratā and the Dharma-Vyādha, and went home to serve his parents. Mahābhārata, Vana Parva, Chapters 205–216

Named in passing

• Kauśika, the wearer of the Nārāyaṇa kavaca: a brāhmaṇa who, wearing the Nārāyaṇa kavaca, gave up his prāṇas in yoga in a desert, told in Viśvarūpa’s teaching of the kavaca to Indra on Vṛtrāsura Vadha (Bhāgavata Purāṇa). Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 6, Chapter 8