What is Atithi Devo Bhava (Guest is God) meaning | Kapota pakshis (Dove birds) story
What is Atithi Devo Bhava (Guest is God) meaning | Kapota pakshis (Dove birds) story
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In a parvatam (hill) known as Brahmagiri there used to live a hunter who was very kruri (cruel). He not only killed pakshis (birds) and praanis (animals), but also brahmanas and rishis as well.
The hunter once went on a hunt. He killed many praanis / animals and pakshis / birds and few of them he put in his panjaram (cage). He had penetrated so far inside the forest / aranyam that he was far from his gruham / home.
It became raatri / night and also started to varsham / rain. Hungry and thirsty, the hunter lost his way. He climbed up a vruksham / tree and decided to spend the raatri / night there.
But his mind kept going back to his ardhangini (wife) and shishus (children) at his gruham (home).
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