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Indradyumna Ii Indradyumna Ii. Indradyumna Iii INDRADYUMNA II 329 INDRAJIT the crocodile leave the former free. Their lake. It tug of war came into existence when the cows given in gift continued for 1000 years when Mahavisnu appeared by King Indradyumna passed along that way. (M.B. on the killed the crocodile scene, and saved the Aranya Parva, Chapter 198). The pool lay near At once elephant. the elephant was re-transformed Mount Gandhamadana, and the Pandavas once visit- into and he attained Indradyumna Vaikuntha (the ed it. (M.B.Adi Parva, Chapter 1 18, Verse 18). abode of . 8th Visnu) (Bhagavata, Skandha) . INDRAJIT. Ravana's son, Meghanada. A verse summarises the Malayalam above story as 1) Genealogy. Descended from Visnu thus: Visnu, follows : Impelled by Agastya's curse the elephant Brahma Pulastya Visravas Ravana Meghanada went to the lake at Mount and suffered . Trikuta, for ( Indrajit) 1000 as the crocodile which years caught hold of its To Pulastya, one of the Prajapatis was born by hind did not loosen its Then leg grip. appeared on the MalinI, Visravas. Visravas had two wives, DevavarninI, scene the killer of Murasura (Lord Visnu) on his also called Ilibila and Kaikasl. Vaisravana or Kubera vehicle, Garuda, killed the crocodile with his discus was his son by Ilibila and Ravana, Kumbhakarna, and salvation to the granted elephant. Vibhlsana and Surpanakha (daughter) being the s 3) Indradyumna' fall from heaven when the merits of his good offsprings of Kaikasu Ravana married Mandodarl and deeds were exhausted. The merits or the result of his three sons, Meghanada, Atikaya and Aksakumara were and noble deeds good having been exhausted, Indra- born to them. Meghanada came to be known as Indra- the dyumna, saintly king once descended from heaven jit also, because he had defeated Indra once. to and the sad earth, King approached sage Markan- 2) Son of Siva. Though it was Mandodarl, Ravana's deya. But, the did not him. The sage recognize King wife, who gave birth to Meghanada (Indrajit) the and the went to sage Pravirakarna, an owl living on Uttararamayana refers to him as the son of Siva in a the of the top Himalayas. It also did not recognise the story as follows: Then went to King. they Nadijamgha, a stork very Once, after religious fasting and other rites on a much older than the owl and living in the lake known Monday (to propitiate the Sun-God) Madhura, an as Indradyumna. Nadijamgha also could not recognise Apsara woman, adorned with all kinds of ornaments the In another King. part of the lake was living a went to Mount Kailasa to offer salutations to Lord tortoise called who was older than Nadi- Siva. Akupara, Parvatl, Siva's consort was not present then, jamgha. At last the the Pravirakarna and and King, sage, Madhura used the opportunity to please the Nadijamgha approached Akupara. At his very sight Lord, and she got pregnant by him. All on a sudden Akupara the recognized King. Akupara told sage Parvatl appeared on the scene, and knowing what that Markandeya Indradyumna was a very famous had happened in her absence she cursed Madhura to King and quite liberal and munificent in fall into an distributing abandoned well as a frog. Madhura gifts, and that the lake was formed for from the Indradyumna by prayed redemption curse, and Siva pity- the passage of the cows the her sad gifted by King. Having ing plight blessed her that after 12 years she heard these details regarding the King the sage sent would get herself transformed into a fair damsel and him back to heaven. Vana the (M.B. Parva, Chapter 199). become daughter of Maya and would, then, be INDRADYUMNA II. Mahabharata, Vana Parva, married by a great King. According to Parvatl's curse Chapter 12, Verse 32 refers to a certain Indra- Madhura fell into a well in the King forest as a frog. Maya- dyumna, a of Sri Krsna Krsna killed sura was contemporary ; performing penance near the well to a him. get daughter. On the expiry of 12 years after Madhura INDRADYUMNA III. A sage Indradyumna is mention- fell into the well as a frog, Mayasura looked into it ed in the list of Saints who their to and beheld a beautiful paid homage girl. He took her to his palace Dharmaputra his forest life. M.B. her during ( Vana Parva, named Mandodarl and brought her up as his own Chapter 26, Verse 22) . Ravana daughter. married her. It was at this stage INDRADYUMNA IV. Name of father. that Siva's vital King Janaka's fluid which had, twelve years before, INDRADYUMNA V. A of king the Iksvaku dynasty. entered her womb made its appearance in the form (See Para 2, under Visvakarman). of a son. Ravana named him Meghanada. Being Siva's INDRADYUMNA VI. A who in king lived the Kr ta son he grew up with great prowess. (Uttara Ramayana). yuga, and a devotee of Visnu. He visited the Jagan- 3) Meghandda's yajnas. When once Ravana was natha temple in Odra Desa once to worship Lord away from Lanka on a conquest of the world, Megha- Jagannatha. The Lord was then hidden in the sand. nada went to Nikumbhila, the central place for con- When the King, disappointed at this was about to ducting yajnas, and performed seven yajnas with sage return, determined to fast unto death at Mount Nila Sukra as the chief priest. By the time all the seven when a celestial voice "Thou cried, shalt see Him". yajnas, viz. Agnistoma, Asvamedha, Afterwards the Bahusvarna, King performed a horse sacrifice and Vaisnava, Manes vara, Rajasuya and Gosava were built a magnificent Visnu temple. Narasirhhamurti over, Ravana returned to Lanka and sage Sukra brought by Narada was installed in the temple. gave him details about the yajnas conducted by his the had a During sleep King dan! ana (sight) of Lord son Meghanada. Ravana did not like the Vaisnava Jagannatha. Also an astral voice directed him to cut yaga performed by his son, and Sukra, who got angry down the tree on the fragrant seashore and make at this cursed, Ravana that he would meet with his idols with it. Accordingly the idols of death at the hands of Visnu. king got (Uttara Ramayana) . Visnu, Balarama, Sudarsana and Subhadra made and By performing a Saiva yaga, Meghanada got the bless- installed them in the temple. (Skanda Purana) of who him ings Siva, taught ( Meghanada) the great INDRADYUMNA A lake. (M). A stork called Nadi- art of Samadhi, which helped one to move and the amongst jamgha Adikurma called Akupara lived in this others invisible to them..
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