Lord Vishnu informed Gajendra that he was the King Indradyumna in his previous birth and was an ardent devotee of Lord Vishnu. Gajendra offered himself before the god and he attained moksha. Seeing this, Lord Vishnu was pleased and instantly he decapitated the crocodile with his Sudharshana Chakra. When Lord Vishnu arrived at the place he was pleased to see that Gajendra has lifted a lotus with his trunk which he is offering to him. Hearing Gajendra’s call, Lord Vishnu rushed to the Earth to help him. When he realised that ‘death’ had come close, Gajendra called to the god Vishnu to save him, holding a lotus up in the air as an offering. the crocodile caught Gajendra’s leg and thus he was unable to excape himself from crocodile’s clutches. As soon as he entered into the lake, suddenly a makara, a crocodile living in the lake attacked Gajendra.
One day, Gajendar proceeded with his herd to a lake. Gajendra was the king of all the other elephants in the herd. The Rtumat garden was created by Lord Varuna and was located on Mount Trikuta.
Once upon a time there was an elephant named Gajendra who lived in a garden called Rtumat. The crocodile in its previous birth had been a Gandharva king called Huhu. It is narrated that Gajendra, in one of his previous births, was the celebrated King Indradyumna, a devotee of Vishnu. Henceforth Gajendra achieved moksha or salvation and went to Vaikuntha with Vishnu. Gajendra Moksha StoryĪs per the legend, Lord Vishnu came down to earth to protect Gajendra, the elephant, from the clutches of Makara, the Crocodile. It is said that Gajendra is the man, the crocodile is sin, and the muddy water of the lake is Samsara. The Gajendra Moksha story hold an important place in Vaishnavism and has great symbolic value for Vishnu devotees. The Gajendra Moksha story is one of the most sacred narrations dedicated to Lord Vishnu. The story is narrated by Sri Suka to Emperor Parikshit at Parikshit’s request and is mentioned in the 8th Skandha of the Bhagvata Purana, a sacred book in Hinduism. Gajendra Moksha is is a Puranic legend of the liberation of Gajendra an elephant from Crocodile.
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