Wednesday, 7 September 2011

Dada's marriage

According to folk tales, On the day he (Dada) was getting married, when he was taking the feras, he heard the news that some dacoits were looting and taking the cows of village. He left the marriage ceremony to fight the plunderers, in which he attained martyrdom.

It is said that Vachara's wife Umade wanted to become a sati but was stopped by saint, who asked her to go to her in laws house. Vachara was blessed by God and was asked to consummate the marriage in vayu form. Thus, twenty two sons were born to him, Solanki descendants of whom all worship him as kuldevta.[2]Mers also worship Vachra Dada and is one of main deity of their caste.[3]
It is said was reborn seven times and every time he would do Pheras (walking around fire to symbolise marriage) he would be interrupted by dacoits taking away the cows. In his seventh life he successfully killed the dacoits. Thus he became a Shurveer in seven cycle of birth.

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