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Ramanand Sagar's 'Shri Krishna' (3):- The Story of King Parikshit

Continuing with the story of Ramanand Sagar's ' Shri Krishna', today, I am going to write about King Parikshit. In 'Shri Krishna' , his story comes after the stories of Bhakti Mata, and Narad garv bhang. Links of previous posts, given below. THE STORY OF KING PARIKSHIT PARIKSHIT was the grandson of PANDAVAS. He was a noble king. One day when he went for hunting, KALIYUG (as a man) came to him for shelter. At first, PARIKSHIT was against him, but then he gave four places (gambling den, liquor joints, the places of adultery and violence) to KALIYUG, so that he can stay there. Lastly, as KALIYUG requested again, PARIKSHIT said that he can stay in 'gold' also. KALIYUG immediately took shelter in the gold crown of the king. After that, the king went to the ashram of sage SHAMIK and finding him doing ‘saadana', insulted him (because of the influence of KALIYUG residing in the gold crown on his head, about which, the king was completely unaware)