Guest guest Posted October 20, 2008 Report Share Posted October 20, 2008 dear friends once upon a time there lived a great sage dadhichi, who was the son of sage chyavana, a descendant of sage sukracharya. dadhichi has a friend ksuva, who is a great king. once ksuva and dadhichi comes to an argument that a king is equated as god and he shall command more respect but dadhichi says that a Brahmin is revered even by gods and kings and hence he needs more respect. then ensues a great fight between the two in which process, sage sukracharya teaches the mritasanjivini mantra and asks dadhichi to pray to lord shiva and seek his boons. accordingly sage dadhichi prays to lord shiva and gets three boons of not having death, adamantine bones and absence of distress. even the thunderbolt used by ksuva could not harm dadhichi due to his boons by lord shiva, after which ksuva prays to his favourite lord Vishnu who then comes to fight with dadhichi and fails as even his discus could not harm dadhichi. later ksuva accepts defeat and praises sage dadhichi. it is written in shivapurana, rudrasamhita, section 2, chapters 38 and 39 that whosoever reads this story can conquer premature death. the place where this happened is sthaneswara and it is written that whosoever visits this place will not have premature death and will have salvation. sthaneswara is today known as thanesar named after the local ancient shiva temple in karnal district of haryana and shivabhakts living in north india can easily visit this place and get benefited. with best wishes and blessings pandit arjun www.rudraksharemedy.com Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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