Navaratri @ Kartheek's house - Bengaluru, Karnataka
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Birth of river Kaveri
Agastya walked for many days to Kailash, filled up his pot with snow water and returned. He looked for a good place to start the river in the hilly Coorg region. Agastya rested for a while and searched for the correct place to put down his special water pot. Close by a small boy was playing. The child was dressed in rags and had a dirty face. Agastya called him, "Little fellow, come and hold this pot for me. Hold it in both hands and don't spill any of it." Agastya looked around and carefully evaluated the land. He considered various places but dismissed them one by one. One place was too flat, one was too hilly. He was thinking very much.
The little boy was really Lord Ganesha, in disguise. He picked a place for the river to start, put the pot down and disappeared. Agastya could not choose a place and called out, "Little fellow, what do you think?" Silence. "Where are you, child? Why have you put down the pot?" Suddenly a large crow flew out of the sky and perched on the edge of the pot, which toppled over and spilled the very special and precious water onto the ground. Agastya was furious and he cursed the crow. But a blinding light flashed for a moment and the crow disappeared. Instead, a jolly-faced Lord Ganesha waving his rose-pink trunk appeared in place of the crow! "What! A curse! Why, I have done nothing wrong but started your river for you." Agastya's anger changed into bliss and Ganesha laughed, his huge ears waving in the morning breeze.
