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2-General Curses-2
Carried From
General Curses-1
Hindu scriptures are full of
boons and curses. Boon is grace
to be bestowed on somebody for his good, mostly boons are asked but sometimes
they are given also when somebody is pleased with somebody. On the contrary
curse is never asked, it is only given to somebody when the other person is
very angry at him. It always does bad to him. Boons and curses are not only
among human beings but also between gods and human beings also. Of course
there is no reference of any boon from a human being to a god. Here are given
some curses --
(23) Saamb, Cursed by Rishi Durvaasaa
Saamb was Krishn's son. Once many Rishi were staying near Prabhaas Kshetra.
Once some Yaadav princes came there and they thought to play with them. So
one prince dressed Saamb as a pregnant woman and took him to the Rishi and
asked them - "You know everything. This woman is pregnant and wishes to
know whether she would give birth a son or a daughter." As Rishi saw the
woman, they understood everything, so Durvaasaa Muni said - "She will give
birth to a Moosal (pestle) which will become the cause of the destruction of the
Yaadav Vansh." Hearing this all princes got frightened and they rushed to
Dwaarakaa and told everything to Ugrasen Jee. Ugrasen Jee got very worried as he
knew that Rishi do not tell lies. Saamb did give birth to a Moosal. Since nothing
could be done then, so Ugrasen ordered to grind that iron Moosal and throw the
powder in the sea. The Moosal was ground but still a small iron piece remained
un-ground. It was also thrown into the sea. Later that iron powder was grown
as grass
Later at one time all Yadu Vanshee
went out on the seashore to enjoy. After enjoying themselves, they ate food and
drank wine. Suddenly an argument broke and they started fighting together. When
their weapons finished, they uprooted the grass (Naagar Mothaa) grown from that
Moosal's powder. That grass worked as arrows and killed many Yaadav and in the
last all Yaadav were killed in this fight. That iron piece was recovered by a
fisherman who sold it to a maker of arrows. He put it on the tip of his arrow
and sold it to Jaraa named hunter. Jaraa killed Krishn with that arrow. Thus the
grass was used by Yaadav to kill each other and the remaining piece was used by
Jaraa to kill Krishn. Thus according to Durvaasaa Muni's Shap that Moosal became
the cause of the destruction of the whole Yadu Vansh. [How Krishn died, read
"Krishn, Cursed by Durvaasaa"]
(24) King Saudaas, Cursed by Rishi Vashishth
Saudaas was the King in Ikshwaaku Vansh. Once King Saudaas went on a hunting trip.
There he killed some Raakshas but left his brother. The brother considered the act
of killing his brother unjust and went to the palace of Raajaa to take revenge of
his brother assuming the form of a cook. One day when Guru Vashishth Jee came to
Raajaa's palace, he offered him food. The cook offered him human flesh in the food.
When Vashishth Jee found the food completely uneatable, he cursed to the King in a
great anger - "You will become a Raakshas because of this act." When later
Vashishth Jee came to know that this was the act of a Raakshas not of Raajaa, then
he lessened the duration of Shaap only for 12 years. At that time Saudaas also got
ready to give Shaap to Vashishth Jee, but his wife Madayantee stopped him to do so.
Then Saudaas asked - "Directions, sky, Prithvi all are living beings, then where
I should drop this Curse water?" At last he dropped it on his own feet - that is
why he was called as Mitrasaha. His feet became black because of pouring that Jal on
his feet - that is why he was named as Kalmaashpaad. Later, after 12 years, Vashishth
Jee freed him from his curse.
[MBH,
G-3-Youth/7;
Bhaagvat Puraan, 9/5]
(25) Shakuntalaa, Cursed by Rishi Durvaasaa
Shakuntalaa was the daughter of Vishwaamitra na Menakaa Apsaraa. Menakaa
left her on prithvi and went away to Swarg after her birth. Kanv Rishi
brought her up as his own daughter. When she had grown up, Raajaa Dushyant
came there hungry and thirsty while on a hunting trip. Shakuntalaa offered
him food and drink and Dushyant married her with Gaandharv method. At that
time kanv Rishi was not there. Dushyant went back to his kingdom saying to
her that he was not taking her to his kingdom at this time, but soon would
come back and take her as his queen. He gave his ring to her as his mark
and went away. Now Shakuntalaa lived lost in his thoughts only. Once she
was sitting lost in his thoughts, that Durvaasaa Rishi came that side and
he called her a couple of times, but she was so lost in his thoughts that
she did not that Durvaasaa was standing there. At this Durvaasaa Rishi cursed
her - "In whoever's thoughts you are lost, he will forget you." At
this Shakuntalaa woke up and said - "But I have his ring to remind him."
Durvaasaa Muni said - "When you will want to show his to him, you will not
find it, so he will not be able to recognize you." Shakuntalaa fell on
Muni's feet, prayed him and asked for Muni's forgiveness. Muni forgave her and
said - "Later he will find the ring and will take you to his kingdom."
The same happened with her.
Dushyant forgot all about her.
When he did not come back, and Shakuntalaa had a son, she went to him with the
ring. But on the way she stopped at a river to drink water and that ring fell
in the river, so when she arrived in the king's court, he did not recognize her,
and when when she wanted to show him his ring she could not find it. She came
back. A fish had swallowed the ring. A fisherman caught it and when he cut its
stomach, he found the King's ring. He recognized it and gave it to the King. Then
he remembered her and searched for her. Once he was coming from a battle he saw
a 5-year old boy playing with a lion's cub,He got very surprised and asked him
about his mother and father. He told his mother's name as Shakuntalaa and father's
name as Dushyant. then they all met and the King brought both of them to his
palace.
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