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limbs, Sunda and Nisunda grew passionato for her; they fought mutually for her sake and destroyed each other. Thus the gods could create Tilottama by putting bits from their own bodies. 4) In his childhood Hanumat was instructed by his mother Añjanā that he was to eat red fruits whenever hungry. He mistook the sun for a fruit; and when he jumped up to snatch the solar orb, his body was reduced to pieces. Seeing his wife lamenting and the son killed, Pavana became enraged and retired to Patāla. There was no breeze in the world, and people were very much worried. The gods approached and appeased him. The limbs of his son were put together, and he was made alive. His chin was missing; so in the absence of it, he came to be called Hanumat. Thus Hanumat could be made alive by putting together bits of his body. 5) When Rāma went to Lanka, a fierce fight ensued between his army and that of Rāvana. In course of fight prince Lakşmaņa fell heavily wounded, and Rāma began to lament. Hanumat, however, went to Dronagiri and brought Nissalyā herb. Not only Laksmana was cured thereby but all the monkeys that were lying wounded were also healed and made alive. 6) Siva and Pārvati were enjoying amorous pleasure in a Himālayan cave for a los time; and all the gods were anxious, because they did not want any progery from them. After long deliberations, they decided that Agni, obliging as he was, should go to Isvara who might then perhaps abstain from coition. Agni was rather unwilling, because Siva was a terrible and uncongenial fellow. Indra, however, prevailed upon Agni who was assured that Siva would certainly behave better in the company of Umā. Though intervened by Umā, Isvara was enraged to see Agni there and forced him to drink his semen. Agni was in flames as it were due to that semen; he rushed to the ocean; and he felt some relief only after vomitting it there. It is said that jewels arose out of this semen. Whatever bit was still remaining in his stomach Agni vomitted in a lotus-lake. Six nymphs, called Krttikā, were bathing in that lake; and they happened to conceive at the contact of semen. After the necessary period of time, they delivered the head, arms, thighs, trunk, etc. When they brought together the limbs with surprise, they got joined mutually at their proper placas; and thus Mahāsena was born. He leads the rigorous life of a celebate and dwells in a forest in the South. Thus the limbs produced from different wombs could get joined and Mahāgena could be produced. 7) Rahu has no head; still he moves in the sky and swallows (or eclipses) the sun and the moon. 8) Vişnu, in the guise of a Dvija, begged of Bali only three steps of the ground, pervaded thereby the whole world, and deprived him of the earth. 9) It is reported in the Rāmāyana that Hanumat, when Lakşmaņa fell wounded in the battle between Rāma and Rāvans, brought the lofty mountain Drona with its vegetation, as he wanted some herb. 10) Madhumatha, in his incarnation of V&rāha, lifted up the earth with its mountains, trees, etc.
If the above events are true, it is quite believable that the limbs of your body could get joined (Nos, 1-6), that your head could taste badana fruite
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