new birth, came to Lord Shiva to ask the Lord to tell her the story of Lord Ram once
again because she was still confused about the Lord’s holy essential form and divine
nature, something for which she had to suffer in her previous birth as Sati, Lord Shiva
had “given her a seat to his left”.]‹ª ∑§„UŸ „UÁ⁄U∑§ÕÊ ⁄U‚Ê‹Ê – Œë¿U ¬ ̋¡‚ ÷∞ ÃÁ„U ∑§Ê‹ÊH 5H
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lagē kahana harikathā rasālā. daccha prajēsa bha'ē tēhi kālā. 5.
dēkhā bidhi bicāri saba lāyaka. dacchahi kīnha prajāpati nāyaka. 6.
Shiva began narrating to Sati various interesting stories related to Lord Hari
(Vishnu)^1.
Meanwhile, sometime during that time, Daksha (Sati’s father) became a
guardian of all living beings in this creation. (5)
The creator Bidhi (Brahma) deemed him suitable in every possible way to be a
guardian of his creation. Hence, he appointed Daksha as the leader (king) of all living
beings in his kingdom (creation)^2. (6)
[Note—^1 Earlier we have read that when Shiva was on his way to Kailash from the
hermitage of sage Agastya and Sati had played mischief on the way, Shiva had
mentally abandoned her. This made Sati very sad. When the Lord found Sati
extremely distressed, he had narrated many stories to her to keep her mind diverted
from her miseries—refer: Ram Charit Manas, Baal Kand, Chaupai line no. 5 that
precedes Doha no. 58.
But the irony is that inspite of suffering so much, and inspite of getting to hear
Lord Hari’s divine stories at least three time by now—once in the hermitage of sage
Agastya, then on the way to Kailash, and the third time now—Sati was still
disillusioned. This is why she has asked Shiva for the ‘fourth time’ to tell her the
divine story of Lord Hari (Ram): refer—Ram Charit Manas, Baal Kand, from
Chaupai line no. 1 that precedes Doha no. 108—to Chaupai line no. 3 that precedes
Doha no. 110.
(^2) The story of Daskha: According to Padma Puran, the creator Brahma, in order to
roll out this creation and make it self-sustaining, created the first human in his own
likeness, and named him ‘Manu’. This Man was a sort of a revealed form of the
invisible Brahma. He was called ‘Swayambhu Manu’ or the self-created Manu
because he had no physical parent.
It is also written that Bhrigu, Pulaha, Kratu, Angiraa, Marichi, Daksha, Atri and
Vasistha were the mentally-created “Manas Putra” of Brahma, and similar to him in
all respects—i.e. had the same mystical powers and knowledge as the creator himself.
These nine are also known as the ‘Nine Brahmas’.
In Bhagwat Maha-Puran, Skandha 4, Canto 1, verse no. 1-2, sage Maitreye had
told Bidur that the Swayambhu Manu had a wife named Shatrupa. From her he begot
three daughters—viz. Aakuti, Devhuti and Prasuti. ‘Aakuti’ was married to Prajapati
Ruchi.
Then later on in Bhagwat Maha-Puran, Skandha 4, Canto 1, verse nos. 10-11,
sage Maitreye had told Bidur that Swayambhu Manu had married his second daughter
named ‘Devhuti’ to sage Kardam, and his third daughter ‘Prasuti’ to Daksha
Prajapati, the son of Brahma.
According to Bhagwat Maha-Puran, Skandha 4, Canto 1, verse nos. 47-53, Manu
married his daughter Prasuti Daksha Prajapati, the son of the creator Brahma. Prasuti
gave birth to sixteen daughters, out of whom thirteen elder ones were married to