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Updated: June 7, 2025
It is to'a, and when round is to'a ati, to'a apu; when branching, uruhi, uruana; when in a bank, to'a aau; when above the surface of the water, to'a raa. A submerged mass is to'a faa ruru, and the coral on which the waves break, to'a auau.
"Sauti continued, 'Ruru then asked, 'O best of Dwijas, why was king Janamejaya bent upon destroying the serpents? And why and how were they saved by the wise Astika? I am anxious to hear all this in detail. "The Rishi replied, 'O Ruru, the important history of Astika you will learn from the lips of Brahmanas. Saying this, he vanished.
The final result that takes place is that its sorrows are then destroyed like a clump of earth falling with violence upon a rocky mass. As the Ruru casting off its old horns or the snake casting off its slough goes on without attracting any notice, after the same manner a person that is unattached casts off all his sorrows.
If from my birth I have been controlling my passions, adhered to my vows, let the fair Pramadvara rise from the ground. "And while Ruru was indulging in these lamentations for the loss of his bride, a messenger from heaven came to him in the forest and addressed him thus, 'The words thou utterest, O Ruru, in thy affliction are certainly ineffectual.
Listen, O Ruru, to the account of the destruction of snakes at the sacrifice of Janamejaya in days of yore, and the deliverance of the terrified reptiles by that best of Dwijas, Astika, profound in Vedic lore and might in spiritual energy." And so ends the eleventh section of the Pauloma Parva of the Adi Parva.
And it is by the curse of a Brahmana that I have been transformed into a snake. And Ruru asked, 'O thou best of snakes, for what wast thou cursed by a Brahmana in wrath? And how long also will thy form continue so?" And so ends the tenth section of the Pauloma Parva of the Adi Parva. "Sauti continued 'The Dundubha then said, 'In former times, I had a friend Khagama by name.
And the pious Ruru having seen Pramadvara in the hermitage of Sthulakesa became one whose heart was pierced by the god of love. And Ruru by means of his companions made his father Pramati, the son of Bhrigu, acquainted with his passion. And Pramati demanded her of the far-famed Sthulakesa for his son.
And the couple passed their days, devoted to each other. And Ruru having obtained such a wife, as is hard to be found, beautiful and bright as the filaments of the lotus, made a vow for the destruction of the serpent-race. And whenever he saw a serpent he became filled with great wrath and always killed it with a weapon. "One day, O Brahmana, Ruru entered an extensive forest.
So ends the ninth section of the Pauloma Parva of the Adi Parva of the blessed Mahabharata. "Sauti said, 'And Ruru, on hearing those words, replied, 'My wife, dear to me as life, was bit by a snake; upon which, I took, O snake, a dreadful vow, viz., that I would kill every snake that I might come across. Therefore shall I smite thee and thou shalt be deprived of life.
It behoveth thee to forgive me and revoke thy curse. And seeing me sorely troubled, the ascetic was moved, and he replied, breathing hot and hard. 'What I have said must come to pass. Listen to what I say and lay it to thy heart. O pious one! when Ruru the pure son of Pramati, will appear, thou shall be delivered from the curse the moment thou seest him.
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