***P8 Story of Ruru and Pramadvara Who was Bitten by Serpent
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Post by Anne Terri on Nov 16, 2016 5:29:37 GMT 1
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"GOD'S LIVING BIBLE ---- THE THIRD TESTAMENT ----- RESEARCH LIBRARY ©
GOD'S SELECTIONS FROM THE MAHABHARATA – FOR PAINTED LESSONS ©
THE MAHABHARATA
of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
BOOK 1 - THE ADI PARVA
Pauloma Parva - Sections VIII-IX
Ruru's Wife to Be - Pramadvara
Bitten by A Serpent
Bitten by A Serpent
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“God / Brahman Speaking To Anne Terri Through The Holy Spirit: This next selection is from a most extensive area of The Adi Parva-the Pauloma Parva.Anne has edited the story - of Ruru and his chosen wife to be named Pramadvara. who was bitten by a Serpent before her marriage - to shorten this for your quick perusal. However if you choose to read the entire tale, the link is placed in several areas within this page to where the story appears within
The Mahabharata.
AMEN"
NEXT SECTION VIII -IX
(Pauloma Parva continued)
Chyavana, the son of Bhrigu, begot a son with his wife Sukanya ... named Pramati
Pramati begot in the womb of Ghritachi a son called Ruru.
And Ruru begot with his wife Pramadvara a son called Sunaka.
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a great Rishi called Sthulakesa finds a baby by a river, born and abandoned by the Apsara Menaka
He shows compassion-takes the baby and raises it in his holy way. She is beautiful, and named her Pramadvara.
He shows compassion-takes the baby and raises it in his holy way. She is beautiful, and named her Pramadvara.
The pious Ruru sees her at the hermitage of Sthulakesa; falls in love and asks his father Pramati the son of Bhrigu if he would ask Sthulakesa for her. The marriage is planed for the day when the star Varga-Daivata (Purva-phalguni) would be ascendant.
One day Pramadvara is with the other women of her age playing, and she steps on a serpent for she did not see it. It bites her and she is poisoned. Sthulakesa sees her laying there and many of the Brahmanas arrive to be with her.
Swastyatreya, Mahajana, Kushika, Sankhamekhala, Uddalaka, Katha, and Sweta of great renown, Bharadwaja, Kaunakutsya, Arshtishena, Gautama, Pramati, and Pramati's son Ruru ... they all wept filled with compassion. Ruru, mortified beyond measure, retired from the scene.'"
Ruru, sorely afflicted, retired into a deep wood and wept aloud. .... He prays...
a messenger from heaven came to him... and said 'The words thou utterest, O Ruru, in thy affliction are certainly ineffectual. For, O pious man, one belonging to this world whose days have run out can never come back to life.... The great gods, however, have provided beforehand a means of her restoration to life. And if thou compliest with it, thou mayest receive back thy Pramadvara.'
"Ruru replied, O messenger of heaven! What is that which the gods have ordained.
the celestial messenger said... 'Resign half of thy own life to thy bride, and then, O Ruru of the race of Bhrigu, thy Pramadvara shall rise from the ground.' 'O best of celestial messengers, I most willingly offer a moiety of my own life in favour of my bride. ....'
"Sauti said, 'Then the king of Gandharvas (the father of Pramadvara) and the celestial messenger, both of excellent qualities, went to the god Dharma (the Judge of the dead) and addressed him, saying, 'If it be thy will, O Dharmaraja, let the amiable Pramadvara, the betrothed wife of Ruru, now lying dead, rise up with a moiety of Ruru's life.'
And Dharmaraja answered, 'O messenger of the gods, if it be thy wish, let Pramadvara, the betrothed wife of Ruru, rise up endued with a moiety of Ruru's life.'
"Sauti continued, 'And when Dharmaraja had said so, that maiden of superior complexion, Pramadvara, endued with a moiety of Ruru's life, rose as from her slumber.
"And on an auspicious day their fathers gladly married them with due rites. And the couple passed their days, devoted to each other. And Ruru having obtained such a wife, ... made a vow for the destruction of the serpent-race....whenever he saw a serpent he became filled with great wrath and always killed it with a weapon.
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THE MAHABHARATA of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa
“God / Brahman Speaking To Anne Terri Through The Holy Spirit: This will be an ongoing endeavor, which will take many hours to build. I Begin this new section within The Third Testament - Research Library, to Bring forward one of the most important ancient texts of Hinduism, The Mahabharata of Krishna-Dwaipayana Vyasa as translated into English from Sanskrit. by Kisari Mohan Ganguli [1883-1896] In doing so, I have Asked of Anne to begin advanced studies on this, for the purposes of future links with other Hindu Study Guides currently in process. It is important to note that
The Mahabharata was written between 540 and 300 B.C. Most credit has been given to Vyasa. The Bhagavad Gita appears in Book 6. .... Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager. at sacred-texts.com, 2003, has asked that the Attribution appear with this public domain work as it is written below. AMEN”
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Scanned at sacred-texts.com, 2003. Proofed at Distributed Proofing, Juliet Sutherland, Project Manager. Additional proofing and formatting at sacred-texts.com, by J. B. Hare. This text is in the public domain. These files may be used for any non-commercial purpose, provided this notice of attribution is left intact.
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