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1-Birth of Vaitaal-1
There
was a city named Dhaaraa Nagaree. Its king Raajaa Bhartrahari was a very lusty
man. He used to pass all his time in enjoying pleasures and did not care
much about his kingdom. His brother Vikramaaditya did not like his
behavior so he got angry with him and went away from there. Now there was
nobody to put any check on him so he started freely enjoying pleasures.
Bhartrahari had six wives. Among them the youngest one was Padmaavatee. He loved her
very much. He went to some prostitutes also. There was a prostitute named
Chitrasenaa, King loved her very much.
One
day a Braaman came to see King Bhartrahari. Although the King was busy in
his pleasures, still he met him because he was a Braahman. Pleased with
him, Braahman blessed him and gave him a fruit. He said - "Hey Raajan,
Whoever will eat this fruit, he will never fall ill and he will always be
young." The King got very happy to hear this. He greeted Braahman
with great respect, and the Braahman went away after giving him thefruit. As the King loved his
youngest wife Padmaavatee most, he gave that fruit to her. He told
her the qualities of that fruit also to her.
Now,
the
queen loved the King's Saarathee (charioteer). He used to visit her often
but secretly; so when he came next, she gave that fruit to him. He used to
go to Chitrasenaa the prostitute, also, so he gave that fruit to
Chitrasenaa thinking that she might like to live young for many years to
come, and said - "Eat this fruit. After eating this fruit you
will always be young and beautiful and will be able to earn more
money." Chitrasenaa took that fruit, but didn't eat it. She was a
prostitute, she didn't like her life. Suddenly she remembered the King
Bhartrahari. She thought, "King is a lusty man, he should want to remain
always young. Let me give this fruit to him so that I can get lots of money from him
in exchange of this
fruit." So when the King came to her, she gave that fruit to him. He got
stunned to see that fruit and asked her where did she get that fruit.
Chitrasenaa got scared hearing King's tone, so she told King's Saarathee's
name.
King
came to Padmaavatee straightway and asked her - "What happened to
that fruit which I gave to you?" Queen could not guess anything, so
she said with simplicity, "I ate it." The King said to her
showing that fruit, "You are lying, you did not eat that fruit. See,
I have that fruit." Hearing this Padmaavatee got scared. The King got
that Saarathee killed by crushing him under the feet of elephant. This
incident broke King's heart, and he became Sanyaasee abandoning all
pleasures and comforts. He went to forest. Thus Dhaaraa city became a kingless city.
Vikramaaditya
also heard this news. King's ministers called him to take care of the
kingdom because people liked him very much. He came and started taking care
of the kingdom. Only one month had passed taking care of the kingdom that
one day a Dev (huge man) appeared in his bedroom in the night and challenged him
for a duel fight. Vikramaaditya was very brave so he accepted his
challenge and defeated him easily. The defeated man said to the King, "Go, I
spare your life. I free you." Vikramaaditya got very surprise to
hear this, he said - "You spare my life? I have already defeated
you, how you can spare my life?"
That
man said - "In fact I have come here only to save your life. This
fight was only to test your might." Hearing this King got more
surprised. He asked, "How?" The man said - "Do you know that
there was a king here named Chandrabhaan? And your ancestors took this kingdom from him only?" Vikramaaditya said, "Yes, I know
this."
The
man said - "Now I tell you about Chandrabhaan. Once he went to forest
for hunting. What he saw there, that a Tapaswee was hanging upside down
from a tree and lived only drinking smoke. He got very surprised to see
that and told it to his courtiers. He was very impressed with that
Tapaswee so he admired him
very much in the court. Now, there was a prostitute also present in his court. She
started laughing hearing the King. The King asked - "Why are you
laughing like this?" The prostitute replied - "O King, Who has
been spared by Maayaa Moh in this world?" King reinforced himself,
"No, He is not like that, he is a real Tapaswee." The prostitute said - "What
makes you so sure about him?" King said - "Well, It seemed to me
like that." The prostitute said - "If you permit me, can I show
you some Charisma?" The King said - "Sure, If you can break his
Tapasyaa, I will give you 100,000 gold coins."
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