Sages
Ahalyā
Wife of the sage Gautama. In Vālmīki she is not stone. She becomes visible again, and the princes touch her feet.
Bāla Kāṇḍa sargas 48–49Vālmīki (primary text)In the text
Ahalyā is the wife of the sage Gautama, and her empty hermitage lies on the princes' road to Mithilā. Rāma asks about it, and Viśvāmitra tells her story: Indra came to her in Gautama's form, and she knew him and consented. Gautama cursed her to live unseen, and Rāma's arrival ends the penance. Gautama takes her back.
Primary text: Śrīmad Vālmīkīya Rāmāyaṇa, Gita Press, Gorakhpur. Later traditions and living-tradition associations are labelled as such. Return to the Rāmāyaṇa World.