Did you know that Puloma, a lovely woman of Rakshasa lineage, married sage Bhrigu and gave birth to a boy named Chavana under strange circumstances, and an ayurvedic preparation formulated by the demigods Ashvini Kumaras to cure Chavana's eye sight is called Chayanaprasha?
Puloma Did you know that Puloma, a lovely woman of Rakshasa lineage, married sage Bhrigu and gave birth to a boy named Chavana under strange circumstances, and an ayurvedic preparation formulated by the demigods Ashvini Kumaras to cure Chavana's eye sight is called Chayanaprasha? Puloma was the daughter of a rakshasa and when she was a child her father is said to have promised her hand in marriage to the demon King Paualama (said to have been a jest her father had said his young child: āSleep ! else Paualama demon will come and I will give you to himā). But as she grew up and became a beautiful damsel, her father met sage Brigu, Manasa Putra ("mind-born-son") of Brahma, and was deeply impressed by the sageās glowing spiritual demeanour. Bhrigu had his Ashram (Hermitage) on the Vadhusar River, a tributary of the Drishadwati River near Dhosi Hill in the Vedic state of Brahmavarta. Puloma's father decided to marry his daughter to rishi Bhrigu. She was a v...
