Mahabharatam WebSeries in Telugu Episode 27 (Birth and Revenge of Sage Aurva) | సంపూర్ణ మహాభారతం భాగం 27 (ఔర్వుడి జన్మవృత్తాంతం, ఆగ్రహం, ప్రతిజ్ఞ) | MPLANETLEAF Join this channel to support me and get access to perks: ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/mplanetleaf/join⁠⁠⁠ OUR OTHER CHANNELS: ►FOLLOW US ON AUDI9 (Website) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://www.audi9.com⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE TO MPLANETLEAF (Channel) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/MPlanetLeaf⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE TO FACTSHIVE (Channel) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/factshive⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE TO SMB AUDIOBOOK (Channel) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://www.youtube.com/smbab⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE TO WHATSAPP (Channel) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://whatsapp.com/channel/0029VaAUdFFF6sn40OeCeH3K⁠⁠⁠ SOCIAL MEDIA: ►SUBSCRIBE TO WHATSAPP (Group) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://goo.gl/Y3Sa7S⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE ON FACEBOOK (Page) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://goo.gl/CBhgyP⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE ON TELEGRAM (Channel) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://goo.gl/ZTwU1K⁠⁠⁠ ►SUBSCRIBE ON TELEGRAM (Group) :- ⁠⁠⁠https://t.me/mplsd⁠⁠

Sage Parashara, who is credited with the famous Parasara Samhita, is the father of Sage Veda Vyasa. The story of the birth of the Sage is very interesting. Sage Parashara was the son of Sage Shakti and his wife Adrsyanti. Sage Shakti was the son of Sage Vasishta.

Legend has it that once a king named Kalmasapada met Sage Shakti in the forest on a narrow path. False pride made both of them not to give way to each other. The king got angry and whipped the Sage. The Sage who was overtaken by anger cursed the king to become a demon.

Sage Vasishta was then living with his daughter-in-law Adrayanti, wife of Sage Shakti. One day Sage Vasishta heard Vedic chantings in the hermitage and soon discovered that child of Sage Shakti was developing in the womb of Adrsyanti.

When time came, Adrisyanti gave birth to the son of Saktri in Vasistha’s ashrama. Vasistha himself performed the after birth ceremonies of his grandson. Since Vasistha had given up his desire for destroying his own body when he heard about this unborn child, the child came to be known as Parasar (one who brings life to the dead). The child grew up in the ashrama to become a very learned and a pious son of a Rishi under the tutelage of Vasistha. The child knew Vasistha to be his father and addressed him as such. One day when he had addressed Vasistha as father in front of his mother Adrisyanti, the latter replied that Vasistha was not his father but grandfather, and his father Saktri was called by a Rakshasa in the forest.

Parasar was at first sad to hear the account of his father, but soon he was enraged and vowed to destroy the creation by his ascetic power. Vasistha was concerned. He tried to pacify him by telling him the story of Aurva. On hearing this account, Parasar refrained from the resolution of detroying the whole world. However he bore a grudge against the Rakshasas who had killed his father.

Parasar therefore called for a sacrifice to exterminate all the Rakshasas to avenge the death of his father. Parasar, the young Rishi, conversant with the Vedas, offered his oblations and Rakshasas and cannibals from different regions, young and old, male and female, came rushing and fell into that terrible fire which consumed them immediately. It seemed that all Rakshasas would be killed. Then the heavenly sages, seeing the great calamity that faced the creation in general and the Rakshasas in particular, approached the place of worship. Atri, the foremost among them, asked Parasar to stop the sacrifice of innocent Rakshasas. Along with him came Pulastya, an ancestor of Ravana and the progenitor of the Rakshasas, the sage Pulaha, and the sage Kratu, who himself had performed many sacrifices. Pulastya was aggrieved by the death of the Rakshasas and addressed Parasar in the most gentle manner to desist from the act. He told Parasar that non violence or ahimsa was the highest virtue and as a Brahmin it was his duty to practice non violence.