Editing Jamadagni (section)

=== Birth ===
According to the [[Bhagavata Purana]], the sage Richika was asked by King Gadhi to bring a thousand white horses with black ears to marry Satyavati. Richika, with the help of [[Varuna]], brought those horses and the king allowed Richika to marry Satyavati.

After their wedding, Satyavati, and her mother, demanded from Richika the blessings for having a son. Accordingly, the sage prepared two portions of milk boiled rice for each, one with the Brahma mantra (for Satyavati) and other with the Kṣātra mantra (for his mother-in-law). Giving the respective portions, he went to perform his ablutions. Meanwhile, Satyavati's mother asked her daughter to swap their portions. Her daughter obeyed. When Richika learned of this exchange, he said that the child born of his mother-in-law would be a great [[Brahmin|Brahmana]], but that his son would become an aggressive warrior, who would bring a bloodbath to this world. Satyavati prayed to amend this outcome, so that her son would be born as the great Brahmana, but that her grandson would become the aggressive warrior. This resulted in Jamadagni being born as a sage (out of Satyavati's womb) and eventually, Parashurama being born as Jamadagni's son, a warrior with a fearful reputation.

Thus, Jamadagni was born to Richika and Satyavati.<ref name="Kapoor2004">{{cite book|author=Subodh Kapoor|title=A Dictionary of Hinduism: Including Its Mythology, Religion, History, Literature, and Pantheon|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=HJ6O8nwsFWgC&pg=PA185|year=2004|publisher=Cosmo Publications|isbn=978-81-7755-874-6|pages=185–}}</ref> Meanwhile, around the same time as Jamadagni's birth, Gadhi's wife Paurakuthsu (Satyavati's mother) gave birth to a son with Kshatriya traits, named Kaushika. He later becomes the renowned [[Vishvamitra]], who was a Kshatriya by birth, but later ascended to the status of a Brahmarishi.<ref>Bhagavata Purana Skandha 9 chapter 15-16</ref>