Ruru and Pramadvara.
Ruru gave Pramadvara half of his life to make her return from the dead after she was bitten by a snake.
The Frog King's Daughter.
This story, once again, contains love at first sight.
The king Parikshit falls in love with a beautiful princess who happened to be a frog.
I don't understand why the princess requires the king to forbid her from looking at water on the ground. Does water automatically make her turn back into a frog? This makes even less sense when the frog king comes to Parikshit's court and says that his daughter deceived Parikshit and many other men.
Frog's sons were cursed to hate sages.
Vamadeva, whose horses were stolen, is a very forgiving sage, especially in comparison to the other sages we have heard stories about.
The Descent of the Ganges.
Queen Sumati gave birth to a gourd that contained 60,000 sons.
Prince Asamanja, the son of King Sagar, was banished from the kingdom and never heard from again.
In order to punish King Sagar for pride of his sons, Vishnu came, disguised as an old woman and stole the sacrificial horse from them.
The 60,000 sons set out to find the horse. They dug through the earth to get to the other side and asked elephants which hold up the earth if they had seen the horse. Finally, they found a meadow where the horse and the old woman were.
The old woman turned into a god and fire shot out of its eyes to consume the 60,000 sons. This must have been a very impressive sight.
The Tale of the Pole Star.
Dhruv walks along a path to find Vishnu and becomes the pole star.
60,000 sons could fill OSU's Boone Pickens Stadium
(OU's stadium capacity is 82,000)
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