Sunday 25 September 2011

The tales of the Hindu Festival Dhanteras

By Radhav Saini


Marking the commencing of the 5 day Deepavali period is the festival of Dhanteras. It is the special day, when Hindus acquire some silver, gold or even make many kind of other investments. Investing money is considered to deliver prosperity and good luck for the year forward. This post is nevertheless talks about the fable of Dhanteras instead than what you need to buy or invest in.

This is the 1st legend that evolves all around the King Hima and his son. In accordance to the horoscope of his son, he would meet with his loss of life on the fourth day of his marriage, because of a snake bite.

As the tale goes, following the prince was married, his spouse held him awake all the way through the evening. She sings a songs and informed him tales. She created confident that the gold and other jewelry had been held at the entrance and she even lit up the complete house with lamps. When Yamraj, the God of Dying took the form of a snake and he arrived at the entrance where he was blinded by the light which came from the lamps and ornaments.

There is a second legend that revolves spherical Dhanteras and this is all about Maa Lakshmi. When she was with the Lord Vishnu who is her husband during his earth bound trips, she managed to disrupt a handful of principles Lord Vishnu had laid down for her. These had been pre-set problems that she had to be stick to.

Nevertheless as shortly as Lord Vishnu acquired to know about it, she was manufactured earth bound for twelve many years as a laborer in a sugarcane fields. Soon after twelve years of difficult operate it was time for Maa Lakshmi to go back to wherever she belonged.

The 3rd fable is that of Dhanvantari as the Medical doctor of all the Gods. As the fable goes, when the Gods boil the Ocean (Samudra Manthan) so that they have Nectar (amrit), it was the Dhanvantari who bought a pot of the philosopher's stone from the waters. This took spot on Dhanteras. Considering that then in the most homes, Lord Dhanvantari was worshiped.




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