HARIDWAR
The Gate Way Of Heaven

GANGAVATARANA

It begins with the performance of Aswamedha yagna by the emperor Sagara, a descendent of Ikshvaku dynasty. When the sacrificial horse was going round, Indra bitten by the demon jealousy of Sagar's superiority, stealthily led it and concealed in Kapila Maharshi's hermitage. The intense search for the horse by the sons of Sagara numbering sixty thousands, at long last brought them to Kapila's hermitage, and they found it here. They demanded explanation of the sage, lost in deep meditation. When he could not reveal it, they insulted and were about do harm. Enraged sage burnt them to ashes at once. Hearing the calamity, Sagara sought the advice of learned men. They ended that the sacred waters of Ganga alone liberate the dead sons. The good old king. unable to accomplish-it, directed his successors to fulfil that just and pious wish. Many tried but failed.

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