Hara

Arjuna, furious that the kirata has claimed his kill, challenges him to a duel. He unleashes everything — arrows, sword, trees, rocks, fists — but the hunter absorbs every blow without moving. When Arjuna's arrows are exhausted, the real battle begins.

Unconscious and broken, Arjuna hears the voice of the god he fought. Hara grants him divine sight, reveals himself as Mahadeva Girisha, and tells him he is pleased. Arjuna kneels and begs pardon — and the god who crushed him reaches down and takes his hands.

Arjuna, hunting in the forest, strings Gandiva against a rakshasa disguised as a boar. But a kirata hunter appears and claims the same target. Both release their arrows at the same instant — and both strike true.

Ganga has descended to earth but needs a guide. King Bhagiratha leads her to the ashes of his ancestors — the sixty thousand sons of Sagara who were burned to cinders by a sage's curse — and with the river's sacred waters, he fills the ocean itself.