VENKATESA PURAANAM
#11e. Bitten by the love bug!
Padmaavati’s friends went straight to the Queen DharaNi Devi and paid their respect. The Queen knew that something was wrong – since the girls were unusually quiet and looked very serious. Padamaavati was not to be seen among them!
The girls told their Queen, “Today a strange young man had entered our flower garden. He said that he was chasing a mad elephant and it had led him to our garden. The elephant ran away when he shot an arrow on it.
But he stayed on there and was teasing and taunting our princess. We threw stones at him and he went away. A tremendous change has come over the princess now!”
The queen ran to her daughter. Padmaavati was sitting staring vacantly. She neither saw her mother approaching her nor heard the words spoken by her.
She was thinking over her own strange behavior during the day! ‘I never think of doing any harm to anyone. Then why did I behave so rudely towards that young man? He was a very smart and handsome and certainly was not mad !’
The Queen removed the effects of the evil eyes by doing drushti parihaaram. She smeared the holy ash on the forehead of the princess but they were of no use. Padmaavati would neither eat well nor sleep well.
Kula guru Sage Sugar advised the King and the Queen, “Please perform abhishekham in the Siva temple situated in the aashram of Sage Agasthyaa and sprinkle that holy water on our princess. She would become her normal self once again.”
The King sent eleven pundits well versed in Veda to perform the aaraadhanaa in the Siva temple situated in the aashram of Sage Agasthya near the royal nanda vanam.
#11e. Bitten by the love bug!
Padmaavati’s friends went straight to the Queen DharaNi Devi and paid their respect. The Queen knew that something was wrong – since the girls were unusually quiet and looked very serious. Padamaavati was not to be seen among them!
The girls told their Queen, “Today a strange young man had entered our flower garden. He said that he was chasing a mad elephant and it had led him to our garden. The elephant ran away when he shot an arrow on it.
But he stayed on there and was teasing and taunting our princess. We threw stones at him and he went away. A tremendous change has come over the princess now!”
The queen ran to her daughter. Padmaavati was sitting staring vacantly. She neither saw her mother approaching her nor heard the words spoken by her.
She was thinking over her own strange behavior during the day! ‘I never think of doing any harm to anyone. Then why did I behave so rudely towards that young man? He was a very smart and handsome and certainly was not mad !’
The Queen removed the effects of the evil eyes by doing drushti parihaaram. She smeared the holy ash on the forehead of the princess but they were of no use. Padmaavati would neither eat well nor sleep well.
Kula guru Sage Sugar advised the King and the Queen, “Please perform abhishekham in the Siva temple situated in the aashram of Sage Agasthyaa and sprinkle that holy water on our princess. She would become her normal self once again.”
The King sent eleven pundits well versed in Veda to perform the aaraadhanaa in the Siva temple situated in the aashram of Sage Agasthya near the royal nanda vanam.