TALAKAVERI & ITS GLORY

After sometime, the sages living in the Vindhya region came to him and narrated about the unusual and rapid growth of the Vindhya mountains which indeed had abstructed the passage of the sun and the moon, and as such they could not carry on their daily routine in the fixed time And added that their appeal to the Vindhyas to stop its growth fell on deaf ears. They ended with an earnest solicitation that his intervention would obviate the difficulty and it was also the only solution. As the request being reasonable, he promised to win over the Vindhyas with a strategy. Then he set out, giving his Kamandal to his disciples to carrying it with care. They nodded. On reaching the Vindhyas, he said to it, "I want passage to go to the south, bend your head and allow it at once; don't raise your head till I return". Realising his unequalled powers and the status enjoyed, the Vindhyas bent his head at once and gave easy passage. And stopped further growth too! Agasthya did not go back to North again, nor the Vindhyas dared growing further. The disciples when they reached this spot, the Kaveri thanaya remembering her past ambition of flowing in the form of river to wash off the sins of people came out of the Kamandal and started flowing. This happened here and hence the sanctity.  

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