Mea Culpa: In defense of the Mena track - Page 2

Agreed!

Reshama dear, one good thing comes out of this. Ab CVs ko ambulance mein jagah dene ki zaroorat nahin hai... We can have Mohitwa all to ourselves! 😉 🤣

MENA I. Wife of Himavan. Beautiful Mena was the daughter of Mahameru.

Himavan lord of the mountains and the seat of many minerals and fossils had two daughters of unparallelled
beauty and their mother was the lovely Mena, daughter of Mahameru and wife of Himavan. (Sarga 35, Bala
Kanda, Valmiki Ramayana).

Ramayana states that Mena had two daughters of extraordinary beauty named Ganga and Uma. They
were both married by Siva.

But Vamana Purana in chapter 51 states that Mena had three beautiful daughters and a son named
Sunabha. Mena's first daughter was Ragim with red body and eyes and wearing a red diess. Her
second daughter named Kutila was white in colour, had lotus eyes, and wore white dress. The third was
a girl of enchanting beauty named Kali. She was blue-black in colour with eyes like the blue lotus leaf.
It can be surmised that the Uma of Ramayana and Kali were one and the same person by the following
verse in the Amarakosa.

Uma Katyayani Gauri
Kali HaimavatKvari //

When the statements of the two Puranas are taken together Mena should have had four daughters,
Ganga, Ragim, Kutila and Kali and a son named Sunabha.

Source: Puranic Encyclopedia (Vettam Mani)

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