The Glory of Betalgeux - Ardra - Which Is Two Crores and Fifty Lakhs Spheres of the Size of the Sun!
In Sanskrit it is called as Ardra. In English it's Betalgeux.The astronomical name is Alpha Orion.
In Tamil just two celebrities are prefixed with the term'Thiru' meaning'most admired'. One is Thiruvadirai and another is Thiruvonam.
Thiruvadirai is Betalgeux.
This celebrity denotes Shiva. Another celebrity denotes Maha Vishnu.
The presiding deity of this celebrity Betalgeux is Rudra, that's Shiva.
This celebrity might be easily spotted from the skies due to its dimensions and relatively close distance in the ground.
Based on Sir James Jeans, the famed writer of'Mysterious Universe', the celebrity Betalgeux is so voluminous that it may comprise two crores and fifty lakhs of spheres of their magnitude of the Sun. Along with the Sun is lakhs of times larger than our ground. This is the tremendous dimension of Betalgeux.
It's so fiery in character, which one observer has rightly explains the celebrity after viewing it via 100 inch telescope out of Mount Wilson Observatory in America so:"I watched it blazing; Just how many countless Suns rolled in to one! I seemed almost to hear the roar of the incredible furnace seething throughout night, burning ever and ever, from the start of time to this incalculable day when time will have no meaning'.
Here is the next brightest star in the skies.
The Hindu puranas provide the title Manmada for the God of Love. Manmada has been identified as Sagittarius from the skies.
We may observe the disappearance of Sagittarius, which is Manmada, at the western shore as Rudra - Betalgeux - rises in the east. This was economically and picturesquely described in the purana through a very simple narrative.
The puranas state that Manmada is instantly burnt and immediately reduced to ash as fiery Rudra - Betelgeux - grew and prolonged his ferocious peek on the offending cupid.
This event has been sung by time immemorial for the day in every nook and corner of India. The dancers with their creative abilities catch this gorgeous scene and replicate it in each point till today.
From the Puranas we might discover that constantly the demonic forces are 180 degrees opposite to that of the Divine forces.
The sky is divided into 360 degrees and always the celestial forces triumph over the demonic forces that are always precisely contrary to them.
Therefore, Ardra is just one particular celebrity glorified from the Puranas, Lord Shiva burnt the wicked fire instantly.
That is named Kama Dahanam significance burning of wicked passion.
Mahabharata describes the burning of Khandava Forests.
Valmiki at Ramayana describes as how Hanuman burnt the town of Sri Lanka.
Napoleon clarified the historical burning of Moscow in 1812 because'fierest, the very terrific and also the very sublime sight that the entire world beheld'.
These are all the descriptions of this fire of a far bigger region.
Once we consider the fiery continuing burning for billions and billions of years at the skies we're dumbfounded.
We're reminded of the fantastic Betalgeux in our everyday life via a little story of Purana.
Celebrate the skies and read the Puranas. We might comprehend the Puranic tales in a much better way the actual significance of which can be hidden from the enormous, endless, unlimited, immeasurable space.