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hermitage. Overwhelmed by passion, he took her up in his chariot and carried her
off.
When Bhargava returned with the fuel and sacred grass that he had gone off to
fetch,
and did not see her, he meditated to learn what had happened and then he cursed the
king. As a result, Dandakya and his entire family and kingdom were covered by a
dust-storm and died. Even today they sing about that place, the Dandaka Wilderness
Dandakya is said to have abducted from the forest the daughter of a Brahman, named
Bhargava, and being cursed by the Brahman, was buried with his kingdom under a
shower of dust. The place was called after his name the Dandaka forest, celebrated
in the Ramayana, but now unknown.
Ahalya was the wife of the sage Gautama. Indra caused her to believe that he was
Gautama, and thus enjoyed her. He was cursed by Gautama and subsequently afflicted
with a thousand ulcers on his body.
Kichaka was the brother-in-law of King Virata, with whom the Pandavas had taken
refuge for one year. Kichaka was killed by Bhima, who assumed the disguise of
Draupadi. For this story the Mahabarata should be referred to.
The story of Ravana is told in the Ramayana, which with the Mahabarata form the
two great epic poems of the Hindoos; the latter was written by Vyasa, and the
former by Valmiki.
Aila (ऐल) or Aila Purūravas is the name of an ancient king, according to the
Vaṃśānucarita section of the 10th century Saurapurāṇa: one of the various
Upapurāṇas depicting Śaivism.—Accordingly, [...] Aila Purūravas, the most
illustrious pious king gets married to Urvaśī, the heavenly damsel who is cursed by
Brahmā to spend sometime here on earth. Purūravas begets on her six sons—Āyu, Mayu,
Amāyu, Viśvāyu, Śatāyu and Śrutāyu . All these are celebrated like Semi-divine
beings (devayonaya).
According to Valmiki’s Ramayana, there once lived rakshasa brothers, Vatapi and
Ilvala. All their life they killed holy men by tricking them. Vatapi had the boon
of transforming into any life form at will. While Ilvala had the power to bring
back the dead.
In order to kill the sages, both would take another form. Ilvala would assume the
form of a holy man and Vatapi would transform himself into a goat. Every time sages
passed through the forest, Ilvala would invite them for a feast. Ilvala would cook
the goat, which was Vatapi, and serve it to the holy men. After they were done
feasting, Ilvala would shout,
“ O Vatapi! Come out.”
Vatapi would emerge tearing the stomach of the sages. The rakshasa brothers killed
thousands of holy men using this trick.
One fine day, Ilvala saw Sage Agastya passing by. As usual, he invited the sage for
a feast. Sage Agastya, through his divine powers, understood that he was being
tricked by the rakshasa brothers. However, he decided to play along. As expected,
Ilvala cooked Vatapi in his goat form and served it. Sage Agastya ate the meal,
rubbed his right hand over his belly and said,
“Vatapi get digested.”
Thus, when Ilvala tried recalling Vatapi, he didn’t come back. Agastya said,
“You wicked Ilvala, you and your brother thought you could kill me but Vatapi can’t
come back now. He has already been digested and his soul has departed his body.”
Ilvala got furious. Seeking revenge, Ilvala pulled out his weapon to attack
Agastya. But Agastya, through his powers obtained through penance, let out fire
from his eyes burning the rakshasa to ashes.
Ahalya was the wife of sage Gautama. Both lived happily in his ashram spending
their days in peace and holy meditation. Indra, the king of natural forces, had
lecherous dreams about her. Once sun and moon assisted Indra in confusing Gautama
that it was morning while it was actually night. While Gautama was away for morning
ablutions, Indra, disguised as Gautama, approached Ahalya and proposed his desires
in front of her. Perhaps she was deceived by the impersonation and yielded to his
desire.
Indra was fleeing in guilty panic, when he bumped into the rishi who was just
returning from his ablutions. The sage immediately guessed as to what had happened.
The sage was very angry and he cursed Indra that he would lose his manhood
immediately, as a punishment for the sin he had committed. As soon as the rishi
spoke these words, Indra became a eunuch.
Then the sage turned to his wife and he cursed Ahalya to become a stone for an
indefinite period of time. He then added that she would be turned to a woman when
the son of Dashrath would touch her statue with his foot. The sage then left his
ashram for Himalayas.
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ichaka was the brother of Sudeshna (wife of Virata) and commander of the army of
Virata. He saw Drupadi when she was serving as Sairindhri in the palace of
Sudeshna. Kichaka wanted to marry Draupadi but she refused and said she is already
married with powerful Gandharvas. But Kichaka insulted Draupadi and tried to take
her by force. Then Draupadi wanted to take revenge, so she told Bhima to kill
Kichaka and finally Bhima did so.