Adi Parvamu- Mrutha Sanjeevani

Shukracharya was a presiding priest in the Kingdom of Demon King Vrishparva. With many magical deeds and ideas he used to take good care of the demons. When there was a fierce war between the Gods and Demons, he used to bring the demons back to life with his art of Mrutha Sanjeevani. Hence there were no casualties in the Demon Army. The Army of Gods began to diminish in number. The Gods began to worry about the loss and they thought " We should also attain Mrutha Sanjeevani, or else there is no use. But how do we get it from them? Who can go to Shukracharya can get it from him?" All of them went to Kacha, the son of Brihaspati. They requested him to help them in this situation. They explained to him how the Army of gods was dimishing and how Mrutha Sanjeevani was helping the Demons and said " Please learn the art of Mrutha Sanjeevani from Shukracharya, You are the one who is capable of doing this. You are young, energetic and smart. Shukracharya will be very happy to see you. He also has a daughter named Devyani, her mother is the daughter of Devendra, Jayanti. Shukracharya loves his daughter a lot and does whatever she likes. Use your skills and get her under control and we can achieve our goal. Please save our lives".

Kacha left to the Kingdom of Vrishparva. When Kacha reached there Shukracharya was teaching the Demon children. Kacha bowed to him and said " I am the son of Brihaspati. I am here to be your disciple, please give me the oppurtunity to serve you". Shukracharya was very happy about his manners and grace and said " If you are the son of Brihaspati, then you are as knowledgeable as him". Shukracharya then offered prayers assuming that he was praying Brihaspati, and then made him his disciple.

Kacha made Shukracharya very happy by his conduct, he performed all the duties that he was asked for. He never questioned anything and took care of Devyani by attending to all her needs. He spoke nice words to her and brought her tasty fruits and flowers from the forest. Years passed by and he served them with all respect and sincerity. Shukracharya could'nt stay away from Kacha even for a minute and Devyani was all impressed by him.

The Demons were not very happy about what was happening, they were very jealous of Kacha. One day Kacha took the cows for grazing and he was alone in the forest. As soon as they found him they killed Kacha. They bound him to a tree and left him alone in the forest. The cows did returned and Devyani was waiting for Kacha and he was not with the cows. She got worried and waited until the next day morning but there was no sign of him. She ran to her father and told him about Kacha and started crying. Shukracharya used his Divya Dhrishti( Divine Perception) and saw Kacha and sent him Mrutha Sanjeevani and brought him back to life.

Another fine morning Kacha went o the forest to bring flowers, the Demons killed him again, this time they turned his body in to ashes and mixed the ashes in to Palm wine and gave it to Shukracharya. He consumed it. Devyani was worried again as Kacha did not return from the forest. She told her father about this, But since Shukracharya was drunk he did not care much and blabbered something saying " Maybe the demons killed him again, he will go to heaven. Stop worrying about him". Then Devyani replied saying " How can I forget him, he is as great as Brihaspati, he is young, handsome and celibate and now he is one of our own. I will not sip a drop of water until he gets back" and started crying.

After sometime Shukracharya gained consciousness again and with divine perception he tried to look for Kacha. But he did not find him in the 14 lokas. He later found out that Kacha was in his own stomach in the form of ashes. He then realized that this was the result of Alcohol and said " All the knowledge which is attained with great effort for various births is destroyed with this habit of Alcohol, this should never be consumed. From today onwards no one should consume alcohol, the one who does will go to Hell, this is my Sasana." He then brought Kacha to life using Mrutha Sanjeevani.

Kacha prayed from inside his stomach saying " You brought me to life, please show me a way to come out". How can he come out? This cannot be possible until the stomach is slit and if that's done then what will happen to Shukracharya. It was a very odd situation, he thought for a while and taught Mrutha Sanjeevani to Kacha. He then said " Slit my stomach and come out and then bring me back to life". Kacha came out of his stomach like a rising sun and then brought his teacher back to life. So finally he was able to achieve his goal of learning the art of Mrutha Sanjeevani.