King Sowdhasar - From a King to Rakshasa

Ohm Namasivaya!!! Ohm Sri Sai Ram!!!!

Once upon a time, there lived a king called Sowdhasar. Once he went to forest for hunting. There in a scuffle he had to kill a Raksha. The brother of that Raksha was very sad at the death of his brother and decided to take revenge for the murder of his brother. But he understood that he could not win the king in a straight war, but could win him through a conspiracy only.
He disguised as a cook and entered the palace of the king and joined there as a cook for the king. One day Sage Vashishta, the Guru visited the king and told him to arrange for dinner as he was very hungry. The Rakshasa in the disguise of cook made use of the occasion, cooked and brought human flesh as food to the sage and gave the king. The king without knowing these served his Guru with his own hand. But the guru understood that food was made from human flesh got angry at the king for his carelessness and cursed him to become a Raksha immediately. But, only later realized the mistake was not that of the king and reduced the severity of the curse for twelve years. So the king had to be a Rakshasa for twelve years then he would be released from his curse and get his original human form. The king became very sad and wanted to punish his Guru in retaliation of the curse. He took water to curse his guru. But on a second thought decided not to do so. Without knowing what to do with the water taken to curse his guru he simply sprinkled the water on his own legs. His legs became black in color immediately and because of this he was called Kalmasha Padhan.

The king became a Rakshasa immediately because of the curse of his guru and wandering in the forest. While doing so with hungry he saw a sage engaged with his wife to create his next generation. Once becoming a Rakshasa the king lost all his human qualities. In his hunger he decided to kill the sage and eat him. But the Rishi Pathni understood that though he looked like a Rakshasa he was a human originally but was so because of a curse, requested him not to kill her husband. Instead he could kill her and eat her as she could not live without her husband. But the Rakshasa was not in the mood to hear whatever the lady requested, simply killed the hermit and ate away. The rishi’s wife crying of the death of her husband, collected the remaining bones of her husband and created a funeral pyre for him fell in it and killed her self. Before jumping into the fire she cursed the Raksha that he would die whenever he touches a girl to make love, he would die immediately. After completion of twelve years, he was automatically released from his curse and got his human form back, returned to his kingdom. His wife on seeing him because of the long separation from her husband came running and embraced him with great affection and love. She wanted to celebrate the occasion by enjoying sex with him. But when the king told her about his curse in the forest, she left him without troubling him anymore. The king had no sons to continue his heredity. This worried him very much. He shared his worry with his Gurus vahishta. The Guru used his yogic power and made the queen pregnant. But the baby did not come out of the womb after the lapse of ten moths. Instead the baby was in the womb for seven years and born only after treatment for this defect.. The baby was named as Asmaga. This Asmaga had a son called Mulaga. At that time Sri Paraurama was there with intension to remove the kshatria caste (warrior caste)from the world i.e. to kill all the kings. When Sri Parasurama was looking for Mulaga to kill,all the girls surrounded king Mulega and concealed the king Mulaga and saved his life from Sri Parasurama . So Sri Paarasurama could not kill him. Because of this reason he was also called as Narigavasa. In the future he became an efficient ruler. King Narigavasa’s son was Dasaraha (Not Sri Rama’s father) Dasaratha’s son Alapidi, Alapidi’s son Visvasagan and Visvasagan’s son Katvangan. King Katvanga stood on the side of Devas and fought against Asuras won the battle in favour of Devas. Thus in the Krudhayuga, human kings helped the Devas to won the battles against Asuras.