JIMUTHAVAHANA

INTRODUCTION
Prince Jimutavahana who lived some thousands of
years ago in India, was a great person, and since
he didn’t want to fight with his cruel relatives, he
gave his kingdom and his entire belongings to
them, and left his family and settled down in a
village nearby a forest along with his parents and
his dutiful wife. He was considered as a holy
incarnation of Lord Vishnu. Once when he was
staying in an ashram along with his family, he
heard the cries of a Naga Lady.
He approached her and asked for the reason. The
lady wept sorrowfully and told, that “Garuda is
considering snakes (Nagas) as his enemy for a
long period of time, and that in their village, daily
every person, must self-sacrifice themselves to
Garuda, who was the vehicle of Lord Vishnu, and
today is the turn for my only lovely son to self-
sacrifice himself to Lord Garuda”.
On hearing the incident from the Naga Lady,
Jimuthavahana got pity on her and decided to
save her Naga son. Jimuthavahana had dressed
himself in the form of the naga boy and went near
Garuda. Garuda got very happy and slowly began
to tear him into pieces and ate his flesh with much
joy. But he noticed that the great Jimuthavahana,
didn’t shown any signs of worries, and he
remained in a happy state even when his body
was damaged. Garuda got very much surprised
and asked him about his details. Then
Jimuthavahana had narrated the incidents in his
life. On hearing the incidents from him, Garuda
was very much ashamed and worshipped him and
realized that he is none other than his master’s
incarnation and regained his body into normal form
and from then onwards he stopped eating
serpents.
From this incident we can understand, that the
messengers of god are very kind on all the living
beings in the earth, and they would even self-
sacrifice their lives for safeguarding the living
beings.
Let us worship the holy prince, the great
Jimuthavahana and be blessed.
“OM SRI JIMUTHAVAHANARE NAMAHA”
“OM SRI GARUDA BHAGAVANE NAMAHA”
“OM NAMO NARAYANAYA NAMAHA”
WRITTEN BY
R.HARISHANKAR