Earth -- Ear of Infinite : 2014

Sunday 21 December 2014

Eye

Ikshvaku's son Nimi once decided to organise a Yagya that was to last for one thousand years. He also wanted the sage Vashishta to guide the Yagya. But Indra had already booked Vashishta for a period of five hundred years. So sage Vashishta expressed his inability to conduct any other Yagya till the completion of that period and requested the king to wait till he was free from Indra's obligations. Nimi kept quite at that time. Taking his silence as an approval, the sage began the Yagya for Indra. But the king meanwhile started Yagya in the auspices of other sages like Gautam etc.

At the completion of Yagya for Indra, sage Vashishta hurried back to the earth to conduct Yagya for King Nimi. But here he found that a Yagya was already in progression. This infuriated the sage to the extent that he poured down curse on Nimi, who was sleeping at that time, to lose his body at once. When the king learned about the curse and that he was cursed in sleep, he cursed the sage in retaliation to lose his body at once before giving up his own body. By the curse of Nimi, Vashishta's body was destroyed but he himself entered the semen of Mitra-Varuna. Thereafter, one day Mitra-Varuna happened to see the apsara Urvashi. Her amorous beauty caused the ejaculation of his semen spontaneously. With ejaculated semen, sage Vashishta also came out and acquired a new body.

On the other hand, at end of Yagya when the gods appeared to accept their due share from the offerings, the sages prayed them to grant Nimi some boon. Nimi however sought nothing in boon but expressed his desire to stay in eyes of the people forever. The gods granted that desire. Before that nobody had ever blinked his eyes. Blinking of eyes came into practice because Nimi stays there. In order to save the kingdom from anarchy, the sages churned the dead body of Nimi with a stick of Bombax tree and produced a son. That son came to known as Janaka. Since he was born from the dead body of his father, the boy also came to be known as Vaideha. Lineage of Janaka continued as follows: Janaka, Udavasu, Nandivardhan, Suketu, Devrat, Brihadukth, Mahaveerya, Sudhriti, Dhrishtketu, Haryashva, Manu, Prateet, Kritrath, Devbheed, Vibudh, Mahadhriti, Kritraj, Maharoma, Suvarnaroma, Hrasyaroma and Seerdhvaj. With a desire of a son, Seerdhvaj was once ploughing the earth when he stumbled upon a pitcher. In the pitcher, he found a beautiful baby whom he named as Sita.

Sunday 26 October 2014

Prithu / Prithvi / Ancestry / Kumaras / Hamsa Gita

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prithu
http://www.hindu.com/2001/07/21/stories/10210906.htm

“O great hero, if you desire to supply sufficient grains and other food to the citizens, then you should arrange for a suitable calf, pot and milkman. Due to the great affection that I will feel for my calf, you will be able to take from me as much of the necessities of life as you like. In addition, if you level my surface, that will also help in the production of food by increasing the retention of water, even if there is sometimes less rainfall.”

King Prithu accepted this and thus he became pacified.

Thereafter, he transformed Svayambhuva Manu into a calf and milked all of the herbs and grains from the cow-shaped earth, keeping them within his cupped hands. Then, following in King Prithu’s footsteps, other intelligent beings proceeded to milk the earth, to obtain whatever they desired.
The great rishis transformed Brihaspati into a calf and made the senses into a pot. In this way, they milked the earth of all kinds of Vedic knowledge for the purpose of purifying everyone’s mind, words and hearing. The demigods transformed Indra into a calf and milked the earth of the soma beverage, which they kept in a golden pot. Due to drinking soma-rasa, the demigods became very powerful in terms of bodily, sensual and mental strength.
The Daityas transformed Prahlada into a calf and then extracted various kinds of liquor and beer, which they kept in an iron pot.
The Gandharvas and Apsaras transformed Vishvavasu into a calf and drew out milk in the form of sweet music and heavenly beauty, putting it into a lotus flower pot.
The inhabitants of Pitriloka made Aryama into a calf and then milked the earth of kavya, which is food offered to the ancestors, and they put it into an unbaked earthen pot.
Thereafter, the Siddhas and Vidyadharas transformed the great sage Kapila into a calf and milked the earth of mystic powers, which they placed in a pot that had been made out of the entire sky.
Others, such as the Kimpurushas made the demon Maya into a calf and milked the power of appearing and disappearing at will, called antardhana.
Next, the Yakshas, Rakshasas, Bhutas (ghosts), and Pisachas (witches), who are all accustomed to eating flesh, transformed the Rudra incarnation of Lord Shiva into a calf and milked beverages made from blood, which they placed into a pot made of skulls.
Then, cobras and other snakes that are without hoods, as well as scorpions and other poisonous animals transformed Takshaka into a calf and took poison from the earth, and kept it within their snake holes.
The four-legged animals made Nandi, the bull-carrier of Lord Shiva into a calf and thus they got green grass that they put into a pot made from the forest.
Ferocious animals made a calf from a lion and were thus able to get flesh from the earth.
The birds made Garuda into a calf and then took from the earth various moving insects and non-moving plants and grasses.
The trees made a calf out of a banyan tree and thus they derived milk in the form of many delicious juices.
The mountains transformed the Himalayas into a calf and then milked varieties of minerals from the earth and placed them into a pot that had been made from the peaks of hills.

Thus, during the reign of King Prithu, the earth supplied all the necessities of life to every living creature. Because of this, Maharaja Prithu became very satisfied with the earth and developed affection for her just as if she were his own daughter. The king leveled the surface of the earth by breaking up the hills with his powerful bow, and after doing so, he divided the land into various types of residential quarters. These sections were then allotted for different purposes, and thus Prithu Maharaja established numerous towns, villages, agricultural fields and mining areas.