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dutiful son being brought up on bread of bhakti and water of
implicit faith started penance to find out solution and remove the
stigma, his mother was forced to bear upon. His severe penance
brought Lord Viswanath before him, who directed him to go
Brahmeswara kshetra in the down South and build temples for all the
divinities, and the gods abiding in that kshetra - Brahmeswara,
Jagulamba and Ganapathy would help him to achieve his objects, and
he and his mother would get Sayujya mukti. The boy, who by then
mastered Rasayoga came to Hemalapura and started building temples,
beginning with Navabrahmas with due propitiation to the presiding
deities of the place, as directed by Lord Maheswar. Soon there
sprouted on the Mother Earth a series ofmagnificent temples of
unearthly splendour. Temple after temple rose up and stupified the
people. The cost of construction was met by him with the power of
Rasayoga with which he converted stones into lumps of gold. His fame
spread like wild fire as the construction went on. It reached the
ears of Vilasat Raja, an atheist first and last. He came with army
and destroyed all the temples built and also seized the vessel
containing Siddha rasa used for converting stones into gold. Enraged
at his iconoclastic acts and sacrilegious attitude, he cursed him to
lose wealth, power, kingdom and all. His powerful curse bore fruit,
and the king became a nomad sans grace, glamour and food too.
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