Thursday, 25 July 2013

Sage Agasthiya and Vathabi-Villola Brothers



Vaathabi and Villola  were two Asura brothers. They were blessed with  super human powers and could get killed and come back to life many a times.
They had a hatred towards all saints and sages and  usually meet all the sages and ask them to have feast at their home. The elder brother Villola used to kill his brother Vathabi and mkea preparation with his body parts and offer it along with other items. The feast they offer would be so great taste, sumptuous and so delicious  the sages got enamoured by it and ate it to their maximum extent .
 Once the sage had eaten the feast Villola would call out to his brother Vathabi “ Vathabi come alive” and Vathabi would take his shape inside the stomach of the sage who had taken the food and would come out of the Stomach of the sage.The sage would get killed by this.  The so killed sage would be food for them for that day. In those days Brahmins also ate non vegetarian food.

This went on and on and many sages and saints fell to the ploy of the Vathabi-Villola brothers  and got killed.

Once sage Agasthiya came along and as Usual the Vathabi-Villola brothers accosted him to come and have food with them. As usual Villola killed his brother Vathabi and cooked him into mouth watering meat dishes and offered it to sage Agasthiya. Once Agastiya ate the food, Villola called out “Vathabi come alive”. Agasthiya who already knew of this ploy put his hand on his stomach and said “Vathabi Geernam” ( Vathabi Digested) and Vathabi who was inside the stomach of the sage Agathiya got digested and killed for ever.

The other brother Villola cried oud our Vathabi come alive many times but there was no trace  of Vathabi. Smiling sage Agasthiya left Villola teaching a lesson to these Asura brothers.

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