Lord Chandra, the Moon is also the lord of plants and vegetation. Chandra is portrayed as fair and young, with two hands holding a club and a lotus. He rides his chariot across the sky every night, pulled by ten white horses or an antelope. Chandra is also known by several names like Soma, Rajanipati, Kshuparaka and Indu.
He is the father of Budha planet Mercury. He is married to 27 daughters of Lord Daksha, after whom the Nakshatras are named. It praises the Moon as the lord of the wise men and remover of all sins. It also helps to remove the afflictions caused by ancestors. When she entered the room, the three beggars had turned into babies.
When Atri Rishi came in, he saw Ansuya w ith three babies. Atri realized that they were none other than the Brahma , Vishnu, and Shiva. The Trideva assumed their real forms and Atri greeted them with folded hands. The Trideva requested Ansuya to ask for a boon. She asked that Brahma, Vishnu, and Shiva actually become their children.
They granted the boon and vanished. Then I want to do severe penance. I will reside on the Moon and be the god of the Moon. Thus, you will be able to see me every night. After taking the permission of their parents, Durvasa left for a long pilgrimage and Chandra left for the Moon. Dattatreya remained with Ansuya and Atri in their hermitage. Chandra once performed the Rajasuya yagna. After performing this great yagna, he started becoming arrogant. He decided to abduct Tara, the wife of Brihaspati preceptor of the devas.
After abducting her, Chandra forced Tara to marry him. Brihaspati was enraged and decided to attack Chandra. Shukracharya, the preceptor of the Asuras, sided with Chandra. This was because Shukracharya was an enemy of Brihaspati. When their preceptor joined Chandra, all the Asuras followed. All the devas and Shiva came to help Brihaspati.
A fearsome war ensued between the two sides. Seeing the war, Brahma came to the location and told the two sides to stop fighting. He ordered Chandra to return Tara to Brihaspati. Chandra has the ability to strengthen the mind, purify the blood and create positive energy and harmony among those who worship him. Chandra is said to be responsible for the dew that falls on plants at night and for the coming of nightfall.
Chandra is connected to the moon. In Hinduism, Chandra became the god of the moon after his mother swallowed it. However, because Chandra is so powerful, he always returns. Chandra has a co-ruler, Candi. Then Candi is devoured and Chandra returns explaining the phases of the moon. Chandra is an early Hindu god. Immensely pleased and impressed with Anusuya , these cosmic lords blessed her to enjoy unprecedented children.
Then, when his body became thoroughly perfused with Soma, he himself became Soma and rose up into the sky. The Soma juice filled him so full that he overflowed, and Soma oozed from his eyes, filling the heavens with luminosity. The goddesses of the ten directions gathered to receive that Soma into their collective womb, but they could not hold it for very long.
The fetus then dropped to the ground and assumed the form of the Moon, whereupon Brahma placed him in a chariot. The Moon was then worshiped by all the celestials. Another theory is that the moon emerged from the Samundra Manthan churning of the cosmic ocean by the devas and asuras as one of the 14 gems that emerged from that exercise. He later married all twenty-seven Nakshatras, beginning with Kritika. Although he had twenty-seven wives, all of whom were sisters, the Moon preferred the one of them named Rohini, and remained always with her in her mansion.
Anyone who looked up into the skies in those days would have seen the Moon forever full, each night, stationary in the sky in the constellation of Rohini. When the Moon in his great infatuation ignored all their entreaties, they ran crying to their father, the Patriarch Daksha, who twice in high dudgeon warned his son-in-law to behave.
On the third complaint Daksha lost his temper and cursed Chandra or Moon god to deteriorate.
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