Vasu as born to Kusu and Vidharba raja's daughter as their fourth son. Vasu ruled Cheda Kingdom, one day when he went to hunt in the forest he visited an Ashram. After seeing the sages there he felt renunciation and left his bow and arrows aside and started doing penance. After sometime Devendra visited Vasu with his family and said " You have been a great king, you took care of your subjects very well and you are doing penance with the same spirit. I am extremely happy with you and I want to be your friend. I will give you a plane which is decorated with gems, come visit me using that plane. Here is a garland made of Lotus flowers, this is called IndraMala( garland of Indra), the flowers will always be fresh. If you wear this, nothing can pierce in to your body, and here is bamboo stick, this will punish the bad people and take care of good people. Go ahead and rule your people with these in your possession." and gave him the Lotus Garland, the Plane and the Bamboo stick. Vasu started going around in the plane and he was famous for this. With the help of the Garland and the Bamboo stick, he ruled his kingdom well. He often visited Devendra and also performed a festival on the name of Devendra and hence started the Indrotsavam.
With the grace of Lord Devendra, Vasu was blessed with five sons, Bruhadrada, Manivahana, Soubala, Yada, Rajanya. Vasu made them kings of five different Kingdoms and they became the roots of five great dynasties. There was a big river flowing past Cheda Kingdom named Sukthimati. Besides the river was Kolahala Mountain. Mountain Kolahala fell in love with Sukthimati, he stopped her flow by standing tall. The river flow stopped, Vasu noticed this and he moved the Kolahala Mountain with his feet. Because of her union with Kolahala Mountain, Sukthimati had two kids, son Vasupada and daughter Garika. As a token of gratitude she gave her kids to the King Vasu. He made Vasupada his Army general and married Garika.
Garika was Rutumati( a menstruating woman) and Vasu was asked by his fore fathers to feed her the meat of a deer. Vasu went for hunting, he was in the forest but he could not get Garika out of his mind. In this process of his thoughts for her, he did not want his semen to go waste. Hence he preserved his semen on a leaf and sent it to Garika through a hawk. When the hawk began to fly in the sky with the leaf in its beak, another hawk saw it and mistook the content on the leaf for meat and began to fight for the meat. The hawk that attacked slit the leaf in to two, and one half fell down. In the course of the fall two drops of semen was carried away by the air and fell in the the river Yamuna. Apsara Adrika was swimming in the river as a fish and she swallowed those two drops of semen and became pregnant and after ten months she was caught by the fishermen. When they slit the fish apart, they found two babies in it, a baby boy and a baby girl. The fishermen took the babies to King Dasa. Once she gave birth to human kids her curse broke and she was free to go back to heaven.
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