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Himavat and Mainavati
Goddess Sarswati pleasantly looked at the Diviners and said, "Oh delightful Diviners! Please note this is your birthplace. The King Himavat is my son and Lord Brahma. He is the younger brother of Devarishi Nerada and Shyamala, the fate writer. His Himalaya Kingdom span some 2500 kilometers/1565 miles. ( This mentioned in the epic Mahabharata) His wife and queen consort is Menavati, the daughter of Mount Meru.

The King Himavan ruled the kingdom of the snowy mountain range that was famous for all richness. He was wise, austere, restrained, generous, and truthful. King Himavan and Mainavati had no children and given to understand on the miracles happening at Kanakachala Temple.

The great Goddess Adi Shakti, pleased with their prayers manifested before them and affirmed, “Oh dear Queen Mainavati! King Himavan is worried about your being childless. You have a very strong desire for pregnancy. Now that you have performed severe penance and gifted several cows, which are of great religious austerities has pleased Lord and heard your prayer! Your womb is divine! The physical form of the Lord needs a physical divine womb. You are a chosen mother since pleased with your simple, innocent, implicit love for the Lord is indeed worthy of honor. I grant you four daughters who are the Diviners.. These are the Divine incarnations of Lord Vishnu, Lord Brahma, Lord Shiva, and me for the benefit of all living beings being a creative Energy. I, being Sati, shall then take birth as a second child of yours, be called as Parvati, the most beautiful among all, and be regarded as the Highest Mother, and the Goddess Shakti of the universe being the consort of Lord Shiva. The third one being the Supreme Godhead Lord Brahma shall take birth as Ekaparna. Thou shall perform the marriage of Ekaparna with Asista Devala. These incarnations are to fulfil the needs of the Divine Creation by all the Supreme Divinities. Further, you shall arrange a ceremony of initiation for these Diviners and shall arrange to impart the fourfold knowledge commence with their first Educational Ceremony at Kanakachala Temple. They shall acquire the highest knowledge beginning from the Temple Architecture, Sanctum Sanctorum, Anointing, Worship, Oblation, Birth of Letters, Age Cycles, Vedic Secrets, Rigveda, Samaveda, Yajurveda and Athatvanaveda, Creation, Cosmos, Mystery of Skies, Great Elements, Solar Relationship, Earth, Vimana, Archery, Heroism, Soul, Yoga, and Asura-Naga and with Ornaments Science”

This story o finds mention in Brahmanda Purana and Kena Upanishad as well in the sacred text of Devi Gita, found in the last nine chapters (31-40) of the seventh skandha of Devi-Bhagavata Purana. The Epic Ramayana details the geographical description of these Mountains, Shikharas, Rivers, Forests, and Medicinal Plants like Sanjivini etc.

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