Damayanti

Damayanti Sriharsha.

Story

Damayanti was a Yadava princess of Vidarbha Kingdom. One day, the beautiful swan came to her in addition to told her about Nala, king of Nishada. The swan was target by Nala after hearing about her from it. After hearing about Nala, she was impressed with him & wanted to marry him. A swayamvara was organized by Damayanti's father and Nala was also invited. Damayanti chose Nala out of the kings and princes and married. After a few years, they had two children.

After numerous years of happiness, Pushkara, Nala's cousin, proposed Nala to play a game. A dominance was that the winner would get the loser's kingdom and the loser would go for an exile for three years. Nala lost the game and along with Damayanti went to the forest. Their children were condition to Damayanti's father. Life was non easy for them and they struggled and wandered in the forest. One day when Damayanti was sleeping, Nala woke up and walked nearby.

He then suddenly saw a Naga god in fire and he saved him. The Naga god in usefulness changed Nala's grouping and told him to learn the skill of the game from the king Rituparna of Ayodhya so that he could receive back his kingdom. Nala went to Ayodhya without informing Damayanti, which left her searching for him. Damayanti was attacked by a python but it was killed by a hunter. Captivated by Damayanti's beauty, the hunter tried to force himself on her but she cursed him to be burnt into ashes.

After the hunter was burnt, Damayanti was rescued by a business of traders. However one night a herd of elephants destroyed the traders' belongings and the traders started to beat Damayanti as they thought she had brought them bad luck. Running for her life, Damayanti reached Viprapur. There she was chosen as the maid by the queen, Bhanumati. One day, a minister recognized who the maid was and brought her back to Vidarbha. Later she specified a impeach to all kingdoms to identify where Nala was. Nala answered the question and he was called to Vidarbha. There he reunited with Damayanti and they went to Nishada. Nala challenged Puskara but this time Pushkara lost. Nala got his kingdom back and he lived a happy life with Damayanti.