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SHIVA DEMAND PARVATI AS HIS CONSORT

 

   while reading some stories from shiv puran  about shiv and parvati came across this story so thought of sharing with you all... Hope u like it...😊

Parvati, after successfully accomplishing her penance came back to her home. Everybody was happy at her arrival.
After sometime Himalaya went out to take his bath in the river Ganges. Meanwhile lord Shiva arrived in his appearance of Nataraj and started dancing in front of Parvati's mother - Maina. She was so pleased by his dance that she wanted to present jewels to him in appreciation, but Shiva refused to take them. He expressed his desire to marry Parvati, which made Maina furious.
In the meantime, Himalaya arrived and she informed him what Shiva had said. He became angry too and ordered his attendants to drive away Nataraj (Shiva) from that place. Shiva then showed his divine appearance due to which Himalaya had the vision of Lord Vishnu and Parvati sitting by the side of lord Shiva in him. Himalaya was very surprised.
Lord Shiva again demanded Parvati to be made as his consort, but Himalaya in his ignorance again refused it. Nataraj then returned back to his abode.
After Shiva went back, Himalaya had a feeling that perhaps it was lord Shiva himself, who had arrived in the appearance of Nararaj. He realized what a grave blunder had been committed. Because of their guilt consciousness, both Maina and Himalaya felt the germination of devotion in their heart.

 

Om Namah Shivya!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

I had never heard of Vishnu's promise that Kama would be born as Pradyumna. That's a fascinating story. Will look up the Bh. Pur.

The story I am most familiar with is the one that goes like this: After Kama is burned to ashes, Rati is about to commit suicide when a heavenly voice stops her and tells her to be patient and that Kama will be restored to her when Shiva marries Parvati.

The source I am most familiar with is the Kumarasambhava. Presumably some puranas also contain the story. I recently read an intro to the KS which made a very interesting point about Kalidasa drawing inspiration from some puranic versions and in turn influencing other puranic versions. Basically saying that it is impossible to decide who influenced whom since both Kalidasa and the major puranas date to the Gupta period. 

Not unlike Shakespeare's influence over English history. Historians are always wailing about this!

Obviously, these 2 sources are different, and both cannot be true at the same time.  This serial too would have done well to go w/ one account or the other.  When they showed Vishnu telling Rati that Kama would be reborn as the son of his Krishna avatar, I thought that that was the last we had seen of Kama.  So it was surprising to see him last night.

The story you narrate is exactly as they have it in both the ACKs Shiva & Parvati, as well as Pradhyumna - the one about Rati wanting to end her life, and a heavenly voice reassuring her that she'd get back her husband.  Only, it didn't mention the occasion when she'd get him back.

But as I asked some pages back in this thread, 3 yugas seems a long time for Kama's soul to have been wandering about aimlessly.  Also, I've been curious about whether Kama & Rati were re-united after Pradhyumna's death - that's something not narrated anywhere, although one might assume it.