Sūrya, the Sun god wedded Saṃjñā, daughter of Viśvakarmā. As she couldn’t bear his heat, she went to her maternal home after making Chāyā her own shadow as her substitute. Since she couldn’t stay there, she took the form of a horse and did hard penance at Uttarakuru land. By the biased acts of Chāyā,…
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We are witnessing the waxing and waning of the moon in the two fortnights of a month. If you ask “Does Sun decay?”, the answer in the Purāṇas is “yes”. Shall we see the story? The Sun god was born to the great sage Kaśyapa. He became the eye for all the worlds. Viśvakarmā, the…
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