Devon Ke Dev Mahadev Written Update 18/05/2012 ~Daksha Beheaded~ - Page 2

Originally posted by: shali

@bewafa...

Sri Hari is another name for Vishnu...

Originally posted by: bewafa

Aaahhh...thanks for that! So, the pain of separation is in this aspect...Ram was Vishnu's avatar...and he lost Sita.

Btw, I have another question...Vishnu bound Veerbhadra...how did Bhadrakali help Veerbhadra escape? Since he couldn't do it by himself due to respect for Vishnu? Is it because, technically, Bhadrakali broke free?

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Here they showed Bhadrakali becoming a fireball and releasing him.

In reality, Vishnu was Daksha's last line of defense, and Bhadrakali's role was much greater than that. Essentially, Virbhadra and Bhadrakali attacked the yagna (Nandi and the Ganas had been defeated earlier) and killed several devas. As another poster pointed out yesterday, Saraswati's nose was cut off, Bhrigu's beard was torn, Vayu's teeth were knocked off and Vishnu himself was knocked unconscious by Veerbhadra. Following that, Daksha was killed.

So Veerbhadra and Bhadrakali played a much bigger role than what they showed.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Much of that story is not well known, and what was probably feared was showing a battle b/w Vishnu & Shiva would risk bruising the sentiments of followers of either: no Vaishnav would want to accept that Vishnu once got trounced by Virbhadra. They probably omitted that scene to avoid any public controversy.

Honestly, I don't see why they should have not shown it. The scriptures have Vishnu losing to Virbhadra in this case, and they also have Shiva losing a battle to Krishna over a demon named Banasura. Neither of these events establish any superiority of Vishnu over Shiva, or vice versa, but some people are unable to accept that at all. So such a thing was probably going to be a non-starter here.

Originally posted by: .Vrish.

Vishnu's statement to Daksh here had no meaning - just one of those meaningless one liners that serials put out.

In the case of Shiva vs Krishna, neither of them were exactly in the wrong. Krishna's grandson had eloped w/ Banasura's daughter, and Banasura imprisoned him. Krishna set out to free him, and Shiva, due to his promise to Banasura, defended him, but got defeated by Krishna. This event ended happily w/ Shiva persuading Banasura to release Anirudha & Usha, and the only thing Banasura lost was his 1000 arms, and left w/ just 2 like everyone else.