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Canto IV — Toward the Sacred Mountains
Canto IV — Toward the Sacred Mountains
Canto IV
Purvamegha — The Cloud's Journey North

Canto IV — Toward the Sacred Mountains

चतुर्थः सर्गः

North of Ujjain the cloud is led past the war-god Skanda's peak Devagiri, the plain of Kurukshetra where the Mahabharata was fought, the field Balarama plowed, and the holy Ganga where she descended through Shiva's matted hair on her way down from heaven.
Invoking the sacred fire...