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Raja Harishchandra
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- The king asked him what he wanted. In response, Vishwamitra said "Give me all that you have except yourself, your wife and your child." As he readied to leave his palace with his family, Vishwamitra demanded another donation. Harishchandra said that he did not have any possession left, but promised to make another donation within a month.
- In order to repay the sage, he sold even his wife and child to an elderly man, and gave this money to Vishwamitra. However, the sage was unhappy with the donation and demanded more.
- Harishchandra then decided to sell himself to the sage, who in turn sold him to a chandala (a low frequency being) for gold. He worked on a cremation ground and one day his son died of a snake bite.
- Once, Lord Vighnaraja (lord of obstacles) entered the body of Harishchandra, and started abusing sage Vishwamitra. This disturbed Vishwamitra's tapasya (penance), and destroyed all the knowledge that the sage had acquired during this tapasya.
- As Harishchandra began to prepare to pay the fee for cremating his son, the deity of Dharma, with Vishwamitra appeared before him and praised him for his integrity, inviting him to heaven. Harishchandra takes all the people of his kingdom and ascends to heaven.