The Bhavishyottara Purana has the following legend of the marriage lord srinivasa. Once srinivasa put on a fine dress and started for hunt the chased an elephant and wandered a long distance and ultimately entered a garden. who were a gardens, A Beautiful young maiden and her companions, who where plucking flowers ran on seeing the elephant and took shelter behind the tree. This maiden was the daughter of king Akasaraja and was named padmavati. this akasaraja and his younger brother Tondaman, were the sons of suvika, a king of the lunar race. Akasaraja found padmavati concealed in a lotus while he was getting a piece of land ploughed inorder to construct a yogasala being childish, he took this child home named her padmavati and brought her up, subsequently, he had a son named vasudeva, srinivasa approached padmavati and described as son of devaki and vasudeva and brother of rama and subhadra he asked her hand, the attendant maidens of the princess got wild and pelted stones at the lord his horse was hit by them and fell down srinivasa departed from the taking a northern direction.
The lord returned to his abode in the ant hill lay down in great grief. Vakula, who attened upon him, appeased
him by many courtesies and found out that he had fallen in love with padmvati, the lord asked her to go to asaksaraja and negotialble his marriage with padmavati, even before vakula reach the king abode, he himself went there in the disguise of gipsy woman and persuaded akasaraj’s queen , Dharani to give her daughter, padmavati, in marriage to srinivasa, padmavati was also stcut love and was pinning for the young man she has met in the flower garden, when vakula reached the king’s palace the ground was already prepared and marriage was settled srinivasa set out with all the gods and goddesses as his relations and married padmavati.
Tondaman build a temple very soon after the marriage akasaraja died his brother, Tondaman, ans son vasudeva, fought for the throne. Srinivasa interfered the instance of padmavati and divided the kingdom between two disputants. Tondaman got the tondamandalam part and vasudeva obtained the narayanavanam part of the kingdom.
This Tondaman was rangadesa in the provided birth. so, the lord commanded him to build a fine abode for his residence, Tondaman constructs a temple. The lord lived in it with great satisfaction. the king had many vehicles made and performed a number of vasudeva for the lord.
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