Ganesha Writing The MahabarthaThis posting is done further to the Makar Sankranti Write up where you will find the following paragraph,while the blog was being posted the same day in the Geeta class we were told about the puranic story, where it is described that the king Sagara had 60,001,son and all the sons were burnt to ashes by Indira who became jittery on hearing that king Sagara is performing a Yajna and before the same could be completed the Ashva or the horse was stolen by Indira and kept in the patala loka,king sagara sends Bhagirath(after his 60000 sons sent earlier to do the job are killed by Indira) to retrieve the horse from Indira,where Bhagirath finds that all the 60000 brothers of his is burnt to ashes, for the moksha for the sixty thousand souls he prays to Indira and ultimately Indira relents and tells him to bring the Ganges to patla loka and get moksha for his brothers, now Baghirath approaches Brigu rishi and requests him to bring Ganges with his tapsysa which he obliges and brings Ganges, however on the way the Ganga is stopped by Shiva for which once again Bhgirath has to pray to Shiva and ultimately shiva lets out Ganges from the lofts of his hair to get Moksha for the sixty thousand souls. Now imagine the amount of labour put in by Baghirath, hence when ever you take up a big task or work and if you finish it successfully it is known as Baghirath pryartana.
The Pargraph in Makar Sankranti Write up
The great savior of his ancestors, Maharaj Bhagirath, did great Tapasya to bring Gangaji down on the earth for moksha to the sixty thousand souls.arata. In the Mahabharata, it is Keshini who gave birth to sixty thousand sons and it is Sumati who had a single son named Asamanja. Also in the Mahabharata, all sixty thousand sons were burnt to ashes.In Bay of Bengal Lakhs take holy dip in the Ganges and do tarpana for their ancestors, the Mela is known as Ganga Sagar Mela.
Text from Puranas
The Brahma Purana also tells us that the sacrificial horse was obtained by Sagara from the ocean. This is the reason why the ocean is referred to as sagara.
To come back to the account given in the Brahma Purana. Panchajana's son was Amshumana and Amshumana's son was Dilipa. Dilipa had a son named Bhagiratha. Bhagiratha brought down the river Ganga from heaven to earth and thus redeemed his ancestors who had been burnt to ashes by Kapila. It was because of this that the river Ganga came to be known as Bhagirathi.
From Bhagiratha was descended Raghu. Raghu's son was Aja, Aja's son Dasharatha and Dasharatha's son Rama.The redemption of 60,000 sons of Maharaj Sagar, who were burnt to ashes at the Kapil Muni Ashram, near the present day Ganga Sagar. It was on this day that Bhagirath finally did tarpan with the Ganges water for his unfortunate ancestors and thereby liberated them from the curse. After visiting the Patala for the redemption of the curse of Bhagirath’s ancestors Gangaji finally merged in the Sagar. Even today a very big Ganga Sagar Mela is organized every year on this day at the confluence of River Ganges and ocean.
To come back to the account given in the Brahma Purana. Panchajana's son was Amshumana and Amshumana's son was Dilipa. Dilipa had a son named Bhagiratha. Bhagiratha brought down the river Ganga from heaven to earth and thus redeemed his ancestors who had been burnt to ashes by Kapila. It was because of this that the river Ganga came to be known as Bhagirathi.
From Bhagiratha was descended Raghu. Raghu's son was Aja, Aja's son Dasharatha and Dasharatha's son Rama.The redemption of 60,000 sons of Maharaj Sagar, who were burnt to ashes at the Kapil Muni Ashram, near the present day Ganga Sagar. It was on this day that Bhagirath finally did tarpan with the Ganges water for his unfortunate ancestors and thereby liberated them from the curse. After visiting the Patala for the redemption of the curse of Bhagirath’s ancestors Gangaji finally merged in the Sagar. Even today a very big Ganga Sagar Mela is organized every year on this day at the confluence of River Ganges and ocean.
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