Adrishyanti

After his sons are killed, the sage Vashishtha tries twice to drown himself. The rivers Vipasha and Himavati refuse to take his life, washing him ashore or splitting into a hundred streams. His despair breaks only when he hears Vedic chants from his unborn grandson.

In the hermitage, the young sage Parashara innocently calls his grandfather Vashishtha "father." His mother Adrishyanti corrects him with a terrible truth: his real father was devoured by a rakshasa. The revelation ignites a grief so absolute that Parashara resolves to destroy all of creation.