Dundhu was granted the boon of remaining Deathless by Indra, who was happy with Dundhu’s penance.
Dhundhu attacked Indra to capture Indra Loka and Indra, along with the Devas ,rushed to Brahma Loka, the Abode of Brahma.
On being advised that he needed the help of Sukracharya, the Asura Guru, Dundhu obtained Sukracharya’s help.
Sukracharya advised Dhundu to perform 100 Aswamedha Yagas.
Dhundhu started performing the Yaga.
Scared Devas, catching the whiff of the Homa Smoke, rushed to Vishnu seeking refuge in Him.
Vishnu in took the form of Vamana (Midget) and pretended to commit suicide near the place where the Yaga was being conducted.
The Brahmins who were conducting the Yaga, saved the Brahmin boy Vamana and asked him the reason for his attempted suicide.
Vamana(Vishnu) told them that he was the second son of Prabasa.
After the death of Prabasa, Vamana added that his brother Nethrabasa refused to give him his share of the property saying that Midgets,Physically disabled and Eunuchs were not entitled to property Rights.
So , Vamana said that he wanted to commit suicide.
The Brahmins requested Dhundu to provide help to Vamana.
Dhundu informed Vamana that he would give whatever Vamana wanted.
Vamana replied that he was not greedy and wanted only land equivalent to his three steps.
Dhundu agreed.
Vamana grew in size, measured the Earthh with one step, Heavens by the second.
Angered that he did not have a place to place his third step, he fell on Dhundu .
Unable to bear Vamana’s weight, Dhundu fell on the ground and Vishnu buried him in the sand and built a Grave.
This, Vamana Purana , declares is the First Vamana Avatara.
And when Bhgiratha prayed Shiva to release Ganges from His Head, to wash away the sins of His forefathes.the Sagara Puthras, who were cursed by Kapila(Avatar of Vishnu), the Ganges flowed from Shiva’s Head.
During Vamana Avatar, Ganges touched Shiva’s head as it fell down through Mrityuloka.
We find Vishnu pada in Gaya,Rishikesh even today.
And,
This lotus feet of Narayana was cleansed by the Brahma (In Vamana avatara of lord Vishnu, while measuring the whole universe the second step, Vishnu went to Sathya loka (residence of Brahma, the four-headed God).
With this unexpected Guest of lord’s feet, Brahma astonished and immediately started cleansing lord’s feet by taking the vedas as water in his kamandalam. That water is flowing as ‘Ganga’). This holy feet belong to Brahmam” ( or Para Brahmam, the Supreme Lord or God-head).
2) Srimad Bhagavatam:
SB 8.21.1: Sukadeva Gosvmi continued: When Lord Brahma, who was born of a lotus flower, saw that the effulgence of his residence, Brahmaloka, had been reduced by the glaring effulgence from the toenails of Lord Vamanadeva, he approached the Supreme Personality of Godhead. Lord Brahma was accompanied by all the great sages, headed by Marici, and by yogis like Sanandana, but in the presence of that glaring effulgence, O King, even Lord Brahma and his associates seemed insignificant.
Srimad Bhagavatam 8.21.4:
‘dhatuh kamandalu jalam tad urukramasya
padavanejana pavitrataya narendra
svardhuny abhun nabhasi sa pataiī nimarsṭi
loka trayaḿ bhagavato visadeva kirtih’
Meaning:
O King, the water from Lord Brahma’s kamandalu washed the lotus feet of Lord Vamanadeva, who is known as Urukrama, the wonderful actor. Thus that water became so pure that it was transformed into the water of the Ganges, which went flowing down from the sky, purifying the three worlds like the pure fame of the Supreme Personality of Godhead.(Yhoo answers)
Vamana or Trivikrama Avatara of Lord Vishnu was the first wholly Human Avatar and it as the first Avatar in Treta Yuga.
The Chief of the Devas, Indra felt threatened by Mahabali who conquered the three worlds.
Lord Vishnu took the Avatar of a Brahmin midget and requested Mahabali for the grant of land measured by his three feet, when Mahabali conducted a Yaga.
Despite his Guru’s advice that the midget was none other than Lord Vishnu, Mahabali, to keep up his word granted the boy’s wish.
Chuthuvilakku at Thrikkakkara Vamana Temple.
The midget grew huge measured the earth with one step, the Heavens with another and asked for a place for the third step.
Mahabali bowed His head and Lord Vishnu kept His foot on his head.
Vamana as He measured the world is called Trivikrama, One who Has won the three worlds.
He blessed Mahabali and granted his desire to visit his Kingdom once in a year.
This day is celebrated as Onam festival in Kerala.
The exact place where Lord Vamana took His first step is in Kerala.at Thirikakara.
The celebration of the Onam festival is the main religious event in the temple. The festival is celebrated over a period of ten days in the Malayalam month of Chingam. The temple is considered to be the centre of Onam celebrations over the world, as Thrikkakara is considered to have been the abode of the King Mahabali. The temple houses the main deity Lord Vamana.During the Onam celebration period, a pyramidal statue symbolizing Lord Vamana is installed as a symbol of honour at all other sites of the celebration, and named Onathappan or Thrikkakara-appan. The temple is the site at which the king Mahabali is said to have been sent to the underworld Patala by Lord Vamana with his foot, hence marking the genesis of the Onam festival. The etymology of the name Thrikkakara (‘place of the holy foot’) is also derived this way.
During the period of 10 days, the temple showcases performances in several cultural arts such as Chakyar Koothu, Ottamthullal, Kathakali and Patakam[9] as well as dance and musical performances such as Panchavadyam and Thayambaka. Each day also has its own ceremonial significance, and the temple authorities perform several ceremonial rites which involve the main deity and the other deities housed at the temple (namely Lord Ayyapa, Devi, Lord Krishna and Rakshassu). The Shiva temple located beside the main temple is also involved in these rites.
Despite various treatments like Chemotherapy,Radiation Therapy, the concern persists.
May be what I say is unpalatable, the fact is that of the efficacy of these treatments and the cure they are likely to effect, Doctors are as much in the dark as the patients, the patients admit the fact, Doctors do not admit it openly.
Lord Dhanvantri, the First Doctor, an Avatar of Vishnu, who rose from the Ocean is the Perfect source to address these types of health issues.
The Amrutha Sanjeevana Mantra.
Lord Dhanvantri.
“Translated by
P.R.Ramachander
(Lord Dhanvanthari Rose up from the ocean of milk when it was churned holding in his hand , a pot of nectar . He is considered as another form of Lord Vishnu and also considered as the doctor for all universe. The Sanskrit original of this stotam taken from Sudarsana Samhitha is available in https://docs.google.com/file/d/0ByHsyol17T5XMkF3SEQ1Z0hZNzg/edit?pli=1 )
1.Namo nama viswa vibhavanaya,namo nama loka sukha pradaya,
Namo nama viswa srujeswaraya, namo nama mukthi vara pradhaya.
Salutations to him who looked after the world ,
Salutations to him who kept the people of the world in pleasant state,
Salutations to the god who maintained the world ,
Salutations to the God who gives boons of salvation.
2.Namo Namaste akhila lokapayaa, namo Namaste akhila loka dhaya,
Namo Namaste Akhila karanaya , namo Namaste Akhila loka rakshakaya
Salutations to the God who is the reason of arrival of all worlds,
Salutations to the God who gave us all the worlds,
Salutations to the God who is the cause of all,
Salutations to the God who protects all the world.
3.Namo Namaste akhila loka harthre , namo Namaste viruja prakathre,
Namo Namaste Akhila viswa dharthre, namo Namaste Akhila loka mathre
Salutations to the God who destroys all the worlds,
Salutations to the God who caused the land of cattle herds
Salutations to the God who carries all the worlds,
Salutations to him who is more powerful than all the worlds.
Oh God you created the world with moving and non moving beings in the form of Brahma,
And looked after that entire world in the form of Lord Vishnu,
And destroyed all that mighty worlds in the form of Rudra,
And by sprinkling nectar all over and destroyed the great sufferings and made us live long.
He rose from the ocean of milk , which was churned with the name Dhanvanthri,
Holding in his hand a pot full of lives of people and gave it to us,
And with great joy he gave the science of Ayurveda for destroying sickness of people,
And by sprinkling nectar all over he destroyed the great sufferings and made us live long.
6.Sthree roopam vara bhooshanambara daram trilokya sammohanam,
Kruthwaa paayayathi sma y asura ganaan peeyusham athyuthamam,
Chakre daithya ganaan sudhaa virahithaan sammohya sa thwam mudhaa,
Samsinchyamrutha seekarair hara maharishtam chiram jeevaya.
Feminine form, , ornamented , clad in silk , most attractive of the three worlds,
He was Making for the group of devas the very great nectar,
Indra, devas who were starved for nectar were joyfully attracted to him,’
And by sprinkling nectar all over he destroyed the great sufferings and made us live long.
From his eyes medicinal herbs ebbed out and in the earth and they became the forest,
He sprinkled them with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
When the Mandhara at his back tumbled , he saved it in the form of a tortoise,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
When the Lord who went as a boar in the path taken by Hiranyaksha who stole the earth,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
For destroying the sorrow of your devotee, the God came as man lion with warmth, Oh Lord .
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long.
The young Vamana removed the anxiety to Mahanbali in the Yaga place and gave him freedom,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long.
The great king Raghava protected by draining out the sea and moving the army,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long.
The consort of Rukhmani who like a forest fire destroyed the asuras who filled the world,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
As Buddha he steered away the chariot travelling in the path of Veda , from madness,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
The God in the form of Kalki who made the varnasrama of kali age in to clear path of Dharma,
He sprinkled it with the drops of nectar , so that all would live and live long
I do not know anybody except you,
In this life except your lotus like feet,
Please get done whatever you think is fit,
And by your good deeds in front of all our eyes.
20.Thwameva thatho, Janani thwameva ,
Thwameva nadhas cha thwameva bandhu,
Vidhyaa dhanagara kulam thwamaiva,
Thwameva sarvam mama deva deva.
You are my father , you are my mother,
You are my lord, You are my relative,
You are education, money and clan,
Oh God of gods, you are my everything
21.Na may aparadham pravalokaya prabho,
Aparadha sindhoscha dhayanidhisthwam, Thathena dushtopi sutha surakshayathe ,
Dhayaluthaa they avathu sarvadhaa asmaan.
Oh Lord please do not bother about my mistakes,
Among the several forest of errors committed, Oh treasure of mercy,
For , the father protects the son from bad people ,
And be merciful always on me.
22.Ahaha vismara nadha na maam sadhaa,
Karunayaa nijayaa paripooritha , Bhuvi bhavan yadi may nahi rakshaka,
Kadam aho jeevana mathra vai.
Oh Lord do not ever forget me,
And always complete me with your mercy,
In this earth if you are not the protector,
What is the way out in this life for me.
23Daha daha krupayaa vyadhi jaalam visalam,
Hara hara kara baalam cha alpa mruthyo karalam,
Nija nija paripalam thwaam bhaje bhaavayaalam,
Kuru kuru bahu kalam jeevitham may sadaalam.
Burn, burn the net of diseases which are broad,
Destroy, destroy the horrible premature death by your hands,
As you are the true protector and I sing about your greatness,
Make, make my hands strong and make life for a long time.
Kleem sreem Kleem Sreem namo Bhagawathe Janardhanaya,
Sakala durithaani nasaya nasaya , ksmoum aarogyam kuru kuru,
Hreem deergamayur dehi swahaa
Kleem sreem Kleem sreem My salutations to God Janardhana ,
Destroy destroy all sufferings, Ksmoum give , give me health
Hreem Give me long life
It is one of the rare occasions The Lord Vishu took the Avatar as a Brahmin, the other being Vamana among the Twelve Avatars.
He had his Mother’s head cut by himself at the behest of his Mother,
She later became to be worshiped as Renukamba containing her body parts. other than the head, while Mariamman, worshiped in Tamil Nadu,containing her Head.
Parasurama was known for Hir Archery and his specialty was Pasupathastra, equivalent to modern Neutron Bomb.
He took a vow o kill every Kshatriya as a revenge for Karhaviryajunas beheading of Jamadagi, Parasurama’s Father.
He lost the battle against Lord Ram, while his battle against Bhishma was equal(Read my post-Clash of the Titans, Bhishma and Parasurama.
Parasurama lived during the Ramayana and Mahabharata period as well.
His weapon was Axe.
The Axe would not fall from his hands, after he had killed his mother.
It fell off at Parashuram Kund in Arunachal Pradesh.
Parashuram’s Axe fell Parashuram Kund
Pilgrims Bathing Parashuram Kund
Parashuram Kund is in Arunachal Pradesh, situated on the Brahmaputra plateau in the lower reaches of the north of Tezu in Lohit District, has been a
source of spiritual inspiration of a multitude of devotees since time immemorial.
Legend.
“One day,Renuka, mother of Parashuram, went to fetch water.
While returning, she felt drawn towards King Chitranatha playing with celestial nymphs.
Consequently, she was late in returning to the ashram.
Jamadagni, her husband, worried over her delay as it was getting late for the midday worship.
On perceiving through his divine power the reason for her delay, Jamadagni was so enraged that, on her arrival, he asked his sons to kill her.
None of his six sons except Parashuram could oblige. He immediately beheaded his mother.
The handle of the axe which he used, however, clung to his hand. Pleased with his son,
Jamadagni desired Parashuram to ask for any boon.
Parashuram asked six boons and one was for the immediate recovery of his mother.
However, this did not wipe out his sin.
He was told that the only way to wash off his sin was by taking a dip in the Brahma Kund.
Only then would the axe stuck to his hand drop.
Parashuram ultimately came to the Brahma Kund in present Lohit District and made a passage for the kund to come out by digging the bank of Brahma Kund.
The spot where the axe dropped from his hand came to be known as Parashuram Kund.
The Kalika Puram states that a mere bath in the kund leads to emancipation.
The waters of the kund are considered as sacred as the waters of the River Ganga. I
n the 18th century a sadhu re-established the site of Parashuram Kund.
The sadhu who came through Chowkham, as the story goes, was driven out from his village as he was looked upon as a swindler.
The villagers thereafter were afflicted with some unknown disease. Meanwhile the sadhu, had hidden himself in a cave around the kund away form the angry villagers.
The villagers came in search of him and offered him fruits and flowers and asked forgiveness.
The site of the Parashuram Kund as established by the sadhu was in existence till 1950 when the old site was completely changed by the earthquake that shook the whole of the North-East and the kund was completely covered
Festival falls on Makara Sankarnthi Day.(around 14,January)
How to Reach.
The kund is 165 kilometres form Tinsukia, the nearest railway station, 97 kilometres via Tezu.
A fleet of the State Transport Department of Assam and Arunachal Pradesh make elaborate arrangements for playing buses form Tinsukia to Namsai, Wakro and Tezu.
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