||Srimad Bhagavath
Mahapuran||
||Om Namo Bhagavathe
Vasudevaya||
Chapter – 27 – The Birth of
Hiranyaksha and Hiranyakashipu
The Jaya and Vijaya who are the sincere attendants of Lord Vishnu misbehaved to Sanakadhis, refused them to enter inside the abode of Lord Vishnu was cursed by Sanakadhis. Lord Vishnu received the noble souls with
great honor and revealed his admiration for the twice-born, who always immerses in
the contemplation of Lord, recitation of Vedic chants, performance of fire
sacrifices, religious and spiritual rites.
Lord Vishnu exposes his happiness lies in the worship of Bhramin and
offering meals, providing charity to them in the form of grains, clothes, land, cows,
etc. Whoever humiliates Bhramin, torture cows or living beings would not attain
the grace of Lord Vishnu. Whoever,
receives twice-born with pleasing nature and respects them, consider them as
their own offspring, would remain the favorite of Lord Vishnu. Therefore, the Jaya and Vijaya who were arrogant to the noble saints were ordained to undergo punishments and come back to the
abode of Lord Vishnu, immediately after the period of punishment. The Sanakadhis with folded hands prayed to
Lord Vishnu “ Oh, Devadeva, who is beloved of twice-born, he is the creator,
preserver, and destroyer of Universe and its living beings, he is primeval, he
represents Yogamaya, and trinities, we shall surrender to your lotus feet. You
have established the Varna Ashrama Dharma, and it was sincerely followed by you during your life on Earth. Kindly shower your grace
on all the living beings on the Earth.”
The curse on Jaya and Vijaya began to work, they descend from the Sri
Vaikundham with a loud shriek and entered in the womb of Dhithi who was already
pregnant with the two fetuses.
Dhithi is a righteous
woman; she was holding her fetus for a hundred years to protect the deities and living beings. As soon as, Jaya and Vijaya entered the womb of Dhithi, she gave birth to two male children. The three worlds revealed
various inauspicious signs at the birth of these infants. There were natural calamities, earthquake,
wood fire, hurricane, thunderstorms, lightning, woods were destroyed, the atmosphere was doomed in a dust storm, and sky was dark, oceans were packed with
huge alarming waves as if shedding tears out of intense grief, lotus flowers where
withered, rivers stream out aimlessly with its murky water, Sun and the moon
had undergone various changes, there were inauspicious signs all over the
world, animals produced cries out of fear and anxiety, they wandered all over
aimlessly. The birds fluttered out of
its nest screaming loudly, cows were frightened and released blood from their
bosom, clouds showered excreta, idols of deities shed tears, and trees were
uprooted without wind. Seeing the
horrifying transformations in the three worlds, except Sanakadhis all the
deities and Rishis were dumbfounded.
