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The Furious Shiva 

Devas engaged King Jalandhara in a battle outside his capital. The next morning, as Vrinda knew that her husband would begin his battle with Lord Shiva, she started her prayers for his welfare. As she was deep in her meditation, she saw someone enter her room. She opened her eyes and was startled to find her husband before her. Vishnu dressed like King Jalandhara and in the darkness entered the house of Vrinda. She mistook him as her husband. She blinked as Jalandhara came before her and told her with pride, 'I have done it....I have defeated Lord Shiva...Now there is no one as strong as me....' He said with pride as Vrinda thanked Lord Vishnu. She stopped her prayers to prepare for the celebrations for her husband's victory. And before she could raise any resistance, he committed rape on her. Vrinda felt something wrong as she looked at him...She had felt something bad happen to her husband...But her husband was standing before her...How was that possible.... She looked at the Jalandhara before her and said, 'Who are you? You are not my husband....Where is he?' Vrinda looked around her palace with tears, 'I stopped my prayers...My husband...What happened to him...?' In the place of Jalandhara, there stood Lord Vishnu

Lord Vishnu was looking at Vrinda with unhappy eyes and sad face... Vrinda looked at Lord Vishnu and glared at him and whispered, 'What have you done? How is my husband....?'

Lord Vishnu continued, 'Your husband was becoming invincible because of your prayers, Vrinda...As long as you were praying for him, nothing could defeat him...'

Vrinda got so much angry and shouted at Lord Vishnu, 'I believed you and you let me down...I loved my husband and you cheated me...You stood like a stone, while my husband was dying in the battle...for this, I curse you to  suffer as I am suffering for my beloved husband.’

Lord Vishnu nodded his head in a melancholy manner. 'I accept your curse, Vrinda...But remember, it was also your duty to stop your husband when he did anything wrong...Your husband was behaving arrogantly and hurting others...He went to the extent of going to asking Lord Shiva to give up Goddess Parvati...' Vrinda looked heartbroken as she fell down. Vrinda breathed her last...Lord Vishnu was looking at the dead face of his greatest devotee...

 Jalandhara noticing the wife's dead body got so agitated that he attacked Kailash with his demon army. After many years of fight, Jalandhara was defeated by the combined power of Parvati and shiva. It was at the battlefield between Lord Shiva cut the head of Jalandhara with his sword. Without her wife's prayer to protect him, the weapon pierced into his body, killing Jalandhara then and there....Sivkishen, Author of Vedic Wings