Vishvamitra

At Utpala in Panchala, Vishvamitra performed a sacrifice with Indra — a feat so extraordinary that Parashurama himself recounted his lineage in witness. But the true transformation came at Kanyakubja, where Vishvamitra drank soma with the king of the gods and formally withdrew from the kshatriya class, declaring himself a brahmana.

Terrible portents shake the world, and the rishis fear the calamities have come because Agni slept with the wives of the saptarshis. But no one knows the truth — that the deed was done by Svaha, the goddess of offering, who had taken the form of each wife to seduce the fire god. When the child Skanda is born, the gods themselves tremble at his power and send the mothers of the world to destroy him.