One day Jamdagni rishi got miffed at the heat created by the Sun and wanted to punish Him. When the Sun found out what Jamadagni had in mind He came in disguise to see him. He asked Jamadagni, how he intended on punishing the Sun, since He was always moving. Jamadagni rishi replied, "there is a moment at noon, when I can see the Sun pausing for a moment, that is when I will shoot my arrows at Him." The Sun revealed himself and asked for forgiveness for causing so much heat, however he claimed th...
May 18, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 18
Vishwamitr is considered to be one of the most powerful sages in our ancient text. He was so powerful that he once started creating his own parallel universe and had to be stopped by the Gods from doing so. Do you know that before becoming a sage, he was prince Kaushik, born to King Gaadhi. Because of his rivalry with Brahmarshi Vashishth, he performed severe penance to eventually gain the title of Brahmarshi. He was also the younger brother of Satyavati, mother of Jamdagni rishi and grandmother...
May 17, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 17
Once Vindhyachal mountain told the Sun that he always circles around Sumeru, and asked him if maybe he could sometime circle around him as well. The Sun said it was not possible to do so. This angered Vindhy and he started growing in size. He grew so large that he started blocking the Sun. Livestock on the earth started suffering due to lack of sunlight. All the Gods approached the great sage Agastya to help them stop Vindhya’s growth and allow sunlight to reach the earth. Agastya rishi went to ...
May 16, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 16
Kurukshetra is named after king Kuru, after which the dynasty was called Kuru Vansh. He was the son of King Samvaran and Tapti. Tapti was daughter of Suryadev. Samvaran had to perform great penance to please Suryadev and pass his test before Suryadev allowed the marriage. Kuru ploughed the field of Kurukshetra for many years and won a boon from Indradev that whoever dies in that field either due to hunger or in battle will go to heaven. Krishna and Bhishma Pitamah were aware of this boon, hence ...
May 13, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 15
Once all 8 Vasus were roaming in a jungle along with their wives. One of the Vasu Prabhas's wife saw divine cow Nandini of sage Vashishth and expressed the desire to possess the divine cow. Prabhas along with all other Vasus stole the cow. When sage Vashishth found out about this he cursed all the Vasus to be born as humans. When all the Vasus repented their action sage Vashisth suggested a way out to seven Vasus except Prabhas. He allowed them to get rid of their human birth as soon as they tak...
May 12, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 14
When Agnidev burned the Khandav forest with help from Shri Krishna and Arjuna, only six creatures survived this great fire. These survivors were four bird sons of Mandpal rishi, Jartari, Sarisrikta, Stambmitra and Drona. Mandodari’s father and architect of demons Mayasur, who built the Indraprashtha palace for Pandav. And son of Takshak, Ashwasen. Ashwasen is the same snake who approached Karna during the Kurukshetra war offering his help in killing Arjuna by riding on one of his arrows. Learn m...
May 11, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 13
When Shri Krishna and Arjuna were scouting for land to set-up their separate kingdom of Indraprastha, they were approached by Agnidev. Agnidev was suffering because of being constantly fed Ghee during King Swetaki’s twelve-year long yajna conducted under supervision of rishi Durvasa. Agnidev was told by Brahmadev that only treatment of his suffering is when he consumes the entire Khandavavan along with all its inhabitants. Agindev tried that many times but every time he tried to burn Khandavavan...
May 10, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 12
In Hiranyakashipu’s lineage were two demon brothers named Sund and Upsund. They were like reflections of each other and were inseparable. Both brothers performed severe penance to get a boon of immortality from Brahmadev, however when Brahmadev refused to award immortality they asked for a boon that they should be killed by each other only, knowing they will never turn on each other. Now to get rid of these two all the gods approached Brahmadev, who requested Bhagwaan Vishwakarma to create the m...
May 09, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 11
Shurpanakha was the youngest child of rishi Vishrava from his second wife Kaikeshi. She was the sister of Raavan. She was very beautiful and was called Minakshi (one who has eyes like fish). She fell in love with a Danava prince of the Kalakeya clan named Vidyutjihva/Dushtabudhi and married him against the wishes of her brother Raavan. Once after conquering the underworld Raavan was visiting his sister’s place and got into an argument with Vidyutjihva and killed him. Nobody had the power to conf...
May 06, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 10
Charioteer of Suryadev had two sons Sampati and Jatayu. Both brothers once decided to fly to the sun. Jatayu flew too high and when he reached closer to the sun, his wings started burning. In order to save his brother Sampati shielded his brother burning his wings in the process. They both fell from the sky. Jatayu could not fly for days, while Sampati completely lost the ability to fly. When vanar sena was looking for mata Sita, they bumped into Sampati, living in a cave on the way to Lanka. Wh...
May 05, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 9
Everyone knows Hanuman ji was celibate for all his life, however there is a mention of his son in various regional retellings of Ramayan. When Hanuman ji was returning from Lanka after putting it on fire, he took a dip in the ocean. A drop of his sweat was swallowed by a giant fish (sea creature). This fish was captured by Ahi Raavan, the king of Pataal-lok. When the fish was cut open mighty hero Makaradhwaj appeared. Ahi Raavan, impressed by his strength, took him under his wings and gave him t...
May 04, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 8
Story of Ashtavakra is narrated in great epics Ramayan and Mahabharat. Astavakra is the son of Rishi Kahoda and Sujatha Daughter of Rishi Aruni. He was born with physical deformities and hence got the name Ashtavakra. When he was very young his father went to Raja Janak’s place to participate in a debate against renowned scholar Vandin/Vanin, son of water God Varun. His father lost the debate and was immersed in water as condition of the debate. When Ashtvakra was ten years old, his mother told ...
May 03, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 7
Nal was son of Vishwakarma, the divine architect and like his father he was himself a great engineer and builder. When Varun dev did not give way to Shri Ram to cross the sea, Shri Ram got enraged and decided to dry to ocean, Varun dev suggested Shri Ram to ask Nal to build a bridge. Nala undertook the great task of building the bridge across the sea that can be used to cross the ocean by entire vaanar sena. In some versions Nal and Nila were twin brothers, who as kids were very mischievous. The...
May 02, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 6
Once Hanumanji decided to find the right teacher for himself and decided to approach Sun for the same, since Sun has been looking over this universe since the creation and has observed everything. He asked Son to be his teacher, but Son told him that he is busy roaming around and does not have time. Hanumanji found a solution to this problem. He suggested that he will fly along with his carriage, while he can teach him while continuing roaming. In the end when Hanumanji wanted to offer gurudaksh...
Apr 29, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 5
When Mayavi got to know about his younger brother’s death at the hands of Vali, he decided to attack Vali to avenge his brother’s death. When Mayavi realised Vali’s strength, he ran away and hid inside a cave. Vali went after him, instructing his younger brother Sugreev to wait for him outside. After many days when Sugreev saw a stream of blood coming out from the cave, he assumed that Mayavi had somehow managed to kill Vali. He closed the opening of the cave with a giant rock and became king of...
Apr 28, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 4
Like Vishwakarma is the architect and engineer of Gods, Mayasur is the architect of demons. Mayasur was the father of Mandodari, who was married to Ravan. He had two more sons Mayavi and Dundubhi. Dundubhi was like a giant bull and had the power of a thousand elephants. Once he went to Himavan mountain and challenged him for a duel. Himavan told him to go and challenge Vali in Kishkindha. Dundubhi went to Kishkindha and challenged Vali for a duel. Vali obliged and the duel went on for days. In t...
Apr 27, 2022•2 min•Season 1Ep. 3
Brahmaji built a divine lake for himself and gave the task of guarding it to Riksharaj. Rikshraj decided to take a bath in that lake. When he came out of the lake, he had turned into a beautiful woman. Around the same time, Indradev was passing through and saw the most beautiful woman near the lake and got infatuated by her beauty. The son he had with Riksharaj in the form of a woman became Bali, the king of Kishkindha. When Suryadev saw Riksharaj in woman form, he also could not control himself...
Apr 26, 2022•3 min•Season 1Ep. 2
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