A Brahmin named Astika, born of a woman also named Jaratkaru, will stop the snake sacrifice and save you.
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I offer you my sister, also named Jaratkaru, as your wife to fulfill the condition for saving my race from a curse.
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I instruct you to give your sister Jaratkaru in marriage to the ascetic Jaratkaru when the time is right.
A son will be born to me, and he will be radiant and endowed with great energy.
I will save you from this terrible danger and go to King Janamejaya to stop the sacrifice.
I take your fever upon my own limbs as a pledge of my resolve to save you.
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Ch. 234
Narada continues his tour of the celestial courts, describing the underwater sabha of Varuna, lord of the waters. He details its divine construction, its radiant beauty, and the astonishing assembly of gods, serpents, demons, and rivers who attend and worship Varuna there.