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| image = Sage Shakti cursing Raja Kalmashapad.jpg<br />
| alt = Shakti<br />
| caption = Shakti (left) meets [[Kalmashapada]] in a [[Mahabharata]] scene.<br />
| children = [[Parashara]]<br />
| spouse = Adrushyanti<ref>{{cite book | url =https://books.google.com/books?id=wR_kAAAAMAAJ&q=Adrushyanti | title = Wife of Sakti Maharsi| isbn = 9788185080987| last1 = Bhiḍe| first1 = Śrīpāda Raghunātha| year = 1996}}</ref><br />
| family = [[Vasishtha]](father)<br />
[[Arundhati (Hinduism)]](mother)<br />
}}<br />
'''Śhakti Mahariṣhi''' was son of [[Vashistha|Vaśiṣṭha]] and Arundhati. He was the father of [[Parashara|Parāśara]] mentioned in the ''[[Mahabharata]]''. <br />
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There is a famous story found in ''Mahabharata'' about Shakti Muni. Once King [[Kalmashapada]], going hunting, kills many animals. Tiring and being hungry and thirsty, he proceeded through the woods. On the way, Rishi Shakti Maharishi came on the same path, from the opposite direction. The King ordered him to get out of his way. The Rishi addressed the King sweetly and said "O king this is my way". In accordance with duty and tradition, a king should always make way for [[Brahmin]]s. The king persisted in acting like a Rakshasa (demon). The Rishi cursed the king thus: "O worst of the worst kings, since thou persecutest an ascetic, like a Rakshasa, thou shalt from this day, became a Rakshasa subsisting on human flesh! Henceforth, O worst of kings! thou shalt wander over the earth, affecting human form!"{{Refn|https://www.sacred-texts.com/hin/m01/m01179.htm}}.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=xeW8AgAAQBAJ&q=shakti&pg=PP9|title=Vashista: By N. RANGANATHA SHARMA, Litent|date=9 January 2014|website=|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=|author2=Litent}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=jg9uAAAAMAAJ&q=sakti|title=Immortal India|last=|first=|website=|year=1991|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref> He is also grandfather of [[Vyasa]], author of the Indian [[epic]] [[Mahabharata]].<br />
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== Death ==<br />
Cursed thus by Rishi Shakti, the Rakshasa(giant) first killed and swallowed Shakti himself. After that, Kalmasapada ate successively all the 100 sons of Maharshi Vasistha.<ref>{{Cite web|url=https://archive.org/details/puranicencyclopa00maniuoft|title=Puranic encyclopaedia : a dictionary with special reference to epic and Puranic literature|last=|first=|date=1975|website=archive.org|url-status=live|archive-url=|archive-date=|access-date=}}</ref><br />
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