भद्रायु (bhadrAyu)
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पुराणम्
Englishभद्रायु / BHADRĀYU. A king who was a devotee of śiva. He was a leper and in his life he suffered much, even the pangs of death. His wife was the dutiful and good natured lady, Kīrtimālinī.
On the sixteenth birthday of bhadrāyu śiva appeared before him in the name of ṛṣabha and blessed him after instructing him on the precepts of Rājadharma. He further gave him a dagger and a conch as weapons and twelve thousand elephants. With the might of all these, bhadrāyu became unconquerable. (śiva purāṇa, Śatarudrasaṁhitā).
One day, while bhadrāyu was ruling the country, śiva came in the guise of a tiger and carried away the wife of a brahmin. bhadrāyu, a firm protector of his subjects gave his own wife to the brahmin and prepared himself to give up his life in fire. śiva greatly pleased at this selfless act of bhadrāyu befitting a true King appeared before him and blessed him and gave back the brahmin his wife.
bhadrāyu in his previous birth was a King called mandara and Kīrtimālinī in her previous birth was piṅgalā, queen of mandara. (skanda purāṇa, 3.3.12
9.14).
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