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13-Vidyunmaalee
Vidyunmaalee was the
son of Taarakaasur. Taarakaasur had 3 sons - Kamalaaksh, Taarakaakshya and
Vidyunmaalee. These 3 brothers did severe Tapasyaa, so Brahmaa Jee had to
appear before them and asked them - "What do you want?" They asked for the
immortality, but Brahmaa Jee refused their request saying that he himself was
not immortal, so he could not grant this boon. They could ask for most
difficult or impossible type of death. At this they said - "We will build
three forts and will live in them. We should be killed
by Shiv's hands, with his one single arrow, when those forts are in one
line." Brahmaa Jee said - "So be it." and went away. Thus they became very
powerful.
They asked Maya
Daanav to build three unique cities for them. So Maya Daanav built three
cities - of gold, silver and iron, which were called Tripur (three cities).
Each brother had his own city. Kamalaaksh lived in the golden city,
Taarakaaksh lived in the silver city and Vidyunmaalee lived in the iron
city. Although the three cities were located at different places, but once
every 1,000 years, when Pushya Nakshatra was in the sky, they came together
in one line. They started living in those cities. They were very religiously
worshipping Shiv as they did not want Shiv to be angry so that he could kill
them.
After a while the
three Asur became very proud of their powers and started to oppress the
Universe. Devtaa went to Brahmaa Jee and Brahmaa Jee in turn went to Shiv
Jee to pray him to kill them. Shiv asked Vishwakarmaa to build a special
chariot for him, Brahmaa became the charioteer of that chariot and thus all
Devtaa attacked the three Asur. But according to the condition they could
not be killed like that. When Pushya Nakshatra was in the sky, and the three
cities came together in one line, Shiv Jee shot the arrow which burned the three
cities in a split of a second.
Death of
Vidyunmaalee
According to Padm Puraan,
4/7, he was killed by Shatrughn. When Raam did His Ashwamedh Yagya
and released His horse to wander around, Shatrughn etc found themselves in a dense
darkness. Then they saw the Paataal dweller Raakshas Vidyunmaalee in the sky
with his other Raakshas companions and a brother Ugradanshtra; and their horse was
gone. In fact Vidyunmaalee was Raavan's friend. Since Raam had killed Raavan,
he was very angry with Him. So when he came to know about Raam's Ashwamedh
Yagya, he decided to take revenge of his friend's killing. He came, stole
the horse in darkness and went away. As he left the place after stealing the
horse, the darkness was also gone. Shatrughn, Bharat's son Pushkal and
Hanumaan fought with him, killed him and his brother Ugradanshtra and took
their horse back.
[Padm
Puraan, 4/7]
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