Mandavya

[1] According to the Mahabharata, Mandavya was once performing a tapas with his arms raised, standing in front of his ashrama for many years.

Finding that the king’s men were pursuing them, the thieves fled, after leaving their stolen property in the sage's ashrama.

Since this led to universal chaos, the devas approached Anasuya, who convinced Shilavati to have the sun rise again.

The sage countered that the Shashtras stated that no man should have to suffer for any sin committed before the age of twelve, arguing that he had been unjustly punished.

Since Dharma had attempted to murder him, a Brahmin, the greatest of sins, he cursed the deity to be born as a Shudra on earth.