Story of Agastya Rishi’s Kamandal and Kaveri River
It is believed that the Vedic tradition passed from north to south and with it many beliefs and rituals. When the sage went to the south, they said that we wanted the Ganges here too, so the concept of Dakshin Ganga was created. Kaveri river is called Dakshin Ganga.
Maharishi Agastya took the education of the great Tamil language from Lord Shiva himself and descended on the earth the holy river Kaveri in South India!
Once, when the demons hid in the sea due to the fear of Indra, then Maharishi Agastya drank the seven oceans filled in his Anjuli (palm), which could kill the demons! But due to the drying up of seawater, the situation escalated to famine in the South direction.
One day sage Agastya was traveling in the forest and his ancestor deity (Pitra) was hanging upside down on the forest trees. When he asked them why are they hanging like this? Why did such misfortune come to them? So his ancestor deity (Pitra) replied, “Since sage Agastya has no son, that is why they are compelled to suffer in this way.” Hearing this, sage Agastya promised him that he would get married soon.
At that time, the king of Vidarbha was doing penance and chanting to get a child. Lord Vishnu approached him and blessed the king with the girl. That girl was named Lopamudra, brought up in royal splendor and opulence.
When the girl was of marriageable age, sage Agastya reached there and expressed her desire to marry the daughter of King Vidarbha.
Although King Vidarbha was very much afraid of the sage, yet he indicated to the sage that he did not want his daughter to be married to him. But here, Lopamudra told her father that she wanted to marry the sage Agastya only.
After that, the king got Lopamudra married to sage Agastya. Since sage Agastya used to travel through the mountains, forests, and thorny roads and he did not want his wife to bear the suffering of all this, so he gave his wife a subtle form, kept her in his Kamandal and she accompanied him wherever he went.
Due to the wish of Lord Shiva, sage August traveled to the south and settled there. Although this journey was challenging, but he completed it following the orders of Lord Shiva. Lord Shiva had given a boon to sage Agastya that his pitcher would always be filled with water. At that time, this region of South India was extremely dry, where it rained occasionally.
Once when Sage Agastya went to take a bath, Lord Ganesha took the form of a crow and turned the Kamandal of Sage Agastya.
As the Agastya sage, kept his wife (Lopamudra) in the kamandal in the form of a river, which turned into the mighty Kaveri river with perennial water.
How to see these Combinations through LAL KITAB
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Jupiter represents – Agastya
Moon represents – Goddess Kaveri
Mercury represents – Kamandal
Crow represents – Saturn
Ganesha represents – Ketu