DIVODASA DIVAHPUTRA 245 to Siva to return to his own place by any Twin sons, Hiranyakasipu and Hiranyaksa were born persuade Mena called her daughter and ridiculed her to Did. For the rest of the story, see under Hiranya- means. husband as a who had no place to lay his kasipu and Hiranyaksa. (Bhagavata, Prathama Skan- vagabond Parvati could not bear this insult. Her mother's dha). head on. remarks circulation in Devaloka. So she 5) Dili flourishes in the assembly of Brahma. (M.B stinging got Siva to settle down somewhere on earth with her. Sabha Parva, Chapter 11, verse 39.) urged and to take up residence at DIVAHPUTRA. One of the twelve suryas who were Siva agreed promised born in the form of the Sun. (M.B. Adi Parva, Chap- Kasi. It was The ruler of Ka.si in those days was Divodasa. ter 1, Verse 42). in the country. As a rule, man DIVAKARA I. A synonym of Surya (Sun). a prosperous period when faced with misfortunes. So DIVAK<\RA II. A son of Garuda. (M.B. Udyoga Parva, turns to God only Siva decided to about a famine among the people Chapter 101). bring it. For that he sent DIVAKARA III. See under Nisakara II. of the country by ruining sage to VaranasI. Kumbhaka arrived in Kagi DIVAKARA IV. A king. During the reign of this king Kumbhaka the barber Karnaka to whom he the Matsya Purana was composed. and appeared to Siva's intentions. The barber cheerfully DIVIRATHA I. A King born in Bharata's dynasty. communicated and built a temple on the He was the grandson of Bharata and the son of fell in with the proposal for the residence of Kumbhaka. Living in Bhumanya. (M.B. Adi Parva, Chapter 94, Verse 24) . next day the Kumbhaka to participate in the DIVIRATHA II. A king. He was the son of Dadhivahana. temple, began the His were much In the course of Paras urama's extermination of spiritual matters of people. blessings Diviratha after and came to have deep faith in Ksatriyas, the sage Gautama rescued a son of sought people him. and gave shelter to him. (M.B. Santi Parva, Chapter Divodasa had no children. He had made many pious 49, Verse 80 and holy rites for DIVODASA. (ATITHIGVA). A king of Ka^I. offerings to gods performed many but it was all in vain. Visnu descended in the his wife's sterility, 1) Genealogy. From following removing - she to offer order: Brahma - Atri - Candra - Budha - Pururavas At last, at the King's suggestion, began issue. But even after - - - - - to Kumbhaka for Ayus - Anenas Pratiksatra Srnjaya Jaya Vijaya puja praying - of devoted she received no Jayatsena -Samkrti- a long period worship, Krti-Haryasva-Sahadeva-Nadina Moved the Ksatradharma-Suhotra-Sala - Arstisena-Kasa - Dlrgha- blessing or boon from the sage. by pathetic - Divodasa - Dhanvantari - Ketuman - Bhimaratha condition of his queen, Suyasas, reproached tapas He him for Divodasa. Kumbhaka very severely. reprimanded his to the queen while he was shower- Divodasa's grandfather's father, Kasa had many denying blessings great in the Provoked were called the Kasis. It was from Kasa's ing them on all and sundry country. sons. They a curse to be called Kasi. at the rebuke, Kumbhaka pronounced reign that VaranasI came (Hari King's that the should be ruined. As a result of it the Varhsa, Chapter 29) . country rule in to decline. (Harivarhsa, Chapter 29). 2 Divodasa's Reign. When Divodasa began his country began ) Siva and Parvati came and settled down in VaranasI. VaranasI, there was a Raksasa named Ksemaka. Parvati to her husband killed him and extended his At After some years, began press Divodasa kingdom. Siva was of invaded to leave the place and to go somewhere else. that stage, Bhadrasrenya, King Hehayas to do so. He said the was "Avimu- Divodasa. Divodasa killed the hundred sons of Bhadra- not inclined place insisted that he would not leave At that time the Kumbhaka (Nikumbha) kta" and therefore srenya. sage to be called it. From that time the place came came to Kasi. His practice was to live for a thousand where he reached at the time of "Avimukta." years at any place Other details. dusk. Since he had reached VaranasI at dusk, he set up 3) Towards the end of his life Divodasa became a an asrama and lived there for a thousand years. At (1) There are numerous references that time there was a famine in VaranasI. The whole Rajarsi (Royal Saint). to this in the Rgveda. Since Divodasa was of land was in the grip of a severe drought. Kumbhaka's Rajarsi and a nature he was known by another asrama and its surroundings alone remained green very hospitable In 1st Mandala, 16th Herdsmen used to take cattle to graze in the name, "Atithigva". Rgveda, cool. that once he hid him- retur- Anuvaka, 127th Sukta, we read neighbourhood of the asrama. Once when they the self under water to escape from an Asura called ned in the evening, they took with their cows, Sarhbara. sacrificial cow of Kumbhaka. It was dark and the sage had a son named , who the cow but could not trace (2) Divodasa "Parucchepa searched for everywhere 127th intuition was a Rsi. 1st Mandala 19th Anuvaka, its whereabouts At last he came to know by Rgveda In his Sukta relates to Parucchepa. that his cow was taken away by the herdsmen. the father of Divodasa, had two other he cursed that VaranasI should be ruined and left (3) Bhimaratha, rage and Sudeva. Divodasa purchased the with his (See under Kumbhaka) . names, Bhlmasena, place disciples. of after two ruin of VaranasI in Harivarh >a is diff- Madhavl, the daughter Yayati paying The story of the with dark- Parva hundred (beautiful horses erent. It was the time when Siva had married ti, Syamakarnasvas so that he have chil- Himavan. After Siva shifted coloured ears) to Galava, might the daughter of marriage he returned task was dren. , After the birth of his children, his residence to his wife's house. Siva whose Madhavl to her father. Udyoga Parva, Chapter to look after the affairs of the world, was never availa- (M.B. seat. ble for the at Kailasa, his own 117). purpose and offers to condition. He sits in Yama's assembly Puja The gods were in a helpless They ap- (4) Mena and her Yama. (M.B. Sabha Parva, Chapter 8, Verse 12). proached Parvatl's mother, requested.