Fascinating story of how Yama became Dharmaraja ....Read on
Brahma's grandson is Surya. He was born to Aditi from Kashyapa. Surya had problem in finding a girl to marry him due to the following reasons. Sun was extremely 'hot & busy' & his height & width were the same.
On learning of his grandson Sun's matrimonial problem, Brahma called his son Tvastru Prajapati & told him to give his daughter Sanjna to Surya in marriage. Prajapati agreed since 'Brahma the lord of fate himself' is proposing this. So Sun marries Sanjna.
Sun gets 'Vaivasvata Manu' as his first son, and twins Yama & Yami as second and third children. Sanjna now decides to leave husband Sun to perceive penance for upliftment. But she understands her responsibility as a wife to serve & help husband Sun.
Sanjna who is the sister of Vishwakarma, is an ace architect & designer. She makes an exact duplicate of herself using her skills & blows life into the replica & names it as Chaya. Chaya asks her master Sanjna for orders. Sanjna tells Chaya that she should act as Sun's wife.
And Sanjna tells Chaya that she should not tell this truth to Sun. Chaya says she won't reveal the truth voluntarily but on pressing she will reveal. Sanjna leaves the house & Chaya starts living as Sun's wife. Since she was so exactly like Sanjna, Sun could not suspect too
Sun gets Savarna Manu d Shani as sons from Chaya. When everything was going smoothy Chaya starts discriminating between Yama & her own son Shani. Yama is first puzzled as to why mother is discriminating against him.
After repeated discrimination Yama warns mother Chaya, that he won't tolerate any more discrimination. But Chaya discriminates against Yama again, & in anger Yama lifts his leg to kick her. On seeing this Chaya curses Yama that his leg will rot & fall off.
Distraught Yama runs to Sun & narrates the entire sequence of events & begs him to save from Chaya's curse. Sun is puzzled as how can a mother discriminate among her children. Using his divine eyes he finds out that wife Chaya is not Sanjna, & Sanjna has left the house already
Sun tells his son Yama that though mother Chaya was wrong in discriminating, Yama trying to assault mother was a big blunder and mother's curse can not be rectified by father too.
Sun tells Yama, that if he can take a vow of never deviating from the path of Dharma in future before Brahma, he will get one more leg. Seems Yama undertook this vow & slowly a second leg grew in place of the fallen first leg. Due to this vow Yama got the name of Dharmaraja.
The story is from Harivamsha and here is the scintillating narration from Dr Satyanarayanachar. ..
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