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Story of King Bharat | The real history of India
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The real history behind why is India called
Bharat?
India
is the land of our ancestors. It is also our spiritual land. The original and
ancient name of India is Bharata. Do you know how our spiritual land got its
name "Bharat"?
There
lived a great and brave king whose name was Bharat. Our spiritual land India
was named after him. There is a wonderful story about the birth of King Bharata.
Bharata
was the son of King Dushyanta and Shakuntala. Dushyanta was the king of
Hastinapur and the ancestor of the Kauravas-Pandavas. Once while hunting in the
forest, he saw a beautiful woman named Shakuntala. Both fell in love with each
other and both of them got married to Gandharva. After a few days, a soldier
came from the kingdom and told some news, due to which King Dushyanta had to
leave for his kingdom. He promised Shakuntala that he would come later and take
her to his kingdom, Hastinapur.
Once
Durvasha Rishi was going through the forest, and he saw a hut on the way which
looked like a sage. When they entered that hut, Shakuntala was alone and she
was lost in the thoughts of King Dushyanta, she did not notice the arrival of
the sage and could not bear the humiliation of the sage for not paying any
attention to his arrival. He immediately cursed Shakuntala that he would forget
her in whose thoughts he was lost. Shakuntala apologized to the sage for his
mistake, seeing this, the sage's anger cooled and he left the ashram saying
that he could not take back his curse but when the right time came, he (Maharaj)
would remember everything.
King
Dushyanta completely forgot Shakuntala. Many days passed, but when Shakuntala
did not receive any message from the king, she went to Hastinapur to meet the
king. He could not even recognize Shakuntala, after that Shakuntala became sad
and disappointed and started living with Rishi Maricha in his ashram. Here she
gave birth to a son named Bharata. He was a very brave child. He was not afraid
of anyone. Bharat used to play with the lion cubs every day.
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King
Dushyanta had forgotten his wife Shakuntala and did not know that he also had a
son. Once, Hastinapur Naresh Maharaj Dushyant was passing through the ashram
while playing hunting in the forest, when he saw a little boy playing with
lions. The boy opened the lion's jaws with his hands and said, "O king of
the jungle! Open your mouth so that I can count your teeth”, Maharaj Dushyant
was very surprised to see such bravery of the child.
Later
Shakuntala and the sage came there and Maharaj Dushyant came to know from them
that Bharata was his son. Hearing this, the king remembered all the words he
had forgotten and he was very happy that Bharat is his son. On hearing this, he
did not delay in embracing his son with love. Maharaj Dushyanta took Shakuntala
and Bharat with him to Hastinapur. Later Bharata developed into a great
Chakravarti emperor.
The
name of our country "Bharat" is derived from his name
"Bharata", because Emperor Bharata had increased the boundaries of his
kingdom so much that there was no other state other than his kingdom, all were
subordinate states within his kingdom. Everyone should remembers our nation's Chakravarti Emperor
Bharata for his bravery.
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