Marm ni vaat (Gujarati) - Bhagvat Puran - Devi Bhagvat

Seeing the forgiveness demonstrated by Maharaj Pruthu, Lord Vishnu appears and explains the role of a king and the path of moksha. The Lord also requests Pruthu to ask for a boon. Listening to the Lord's advice, Pruthu pleads to the Lord that he offers him a place in his heart. The Lord praises Pruthu and everyone leaves the Yagya. 

After seeing that the people under his rule are well settled, Maharaj Pruthu focuses on his spiritual self and decides to carry out 100 Ashwamedh Yagya. Bitten by jealousy, the mercurial God, Indra feels that Pruthu will gain even more of a status than him by completing the 100 yagyas. Hence, he tries to disrupt the process disguising himself in different identities. The son of Pruthu, stops Indra from his mischief. Knowing what Indra is trying to do, Pruthu gets angrier and gets ready to kill Indra. However, Brahamaji appears and requests Pruthu to disengage and avoid taking part in such misdeed. Pruthu, in his maturity, lets go of Indra and forgives him. 

Earth who has taken the shape of a cow explains to Maharaj Pruthu why she is hiding the different types of fauna, flora and other good things. She requests that Maharaj Pruthu finds the right calf and the right shepherd to milch this cow and also provide flat lands to people by demolishing some of the hills. Following that mother Earth provides what is required by different types of beings. Maharaj Pruthu who has taken the Earth under his refuge, makes her his daughter. 

When Maharaj Pruthu finds out from his citizens that the Earth has stop offering them the resources, he gets ready to fire a metaphorical arrows to the Earth. The Goddess Earth takes the shape of a cow and runs from the Maharaj Pruthu. However, she realises that there is no way out and so takes refuge with Pruthu himself. She understands that Maraharj Pruthu is another incarnation of Lord Vishnu and offers a stuti. 

When Maharaj Pruthu explains his views about why he should not be praised early, the people feel grateful and offer his stuti that reflects the expectations of the people from him. Moreover, in doing so, vyasji explains the role of and expectations from a good leader.

When the sages try again, they get two bodies from the arm of the dead king Ven. Two beings emerge from that as Pruthu and Archi, who are identified as the incarnation of Lord Shri Vishnu and Laxmi ji. As people start praising Maharaj Pruthu he stops them and explains that they should not praise him before they see his karma. We learn some leadership lessons through his sentences. 

In this episode we hear about the king Ven, who is full of self-praise and asks everyone to stop their devotion of the Lord Vishnu. He wants to everyone to divert their devotional activities to him only. Seeing this, the sages attempt to reason with the king, however, the king gets angry at them. Thus, in retaliation, the sages put him to death. The sages realise that Ven having no sons, the lineage of Dhruv will be gone. Thus, they attempt to get a baby out of his body. The first one happens to Nishad, who is full of vices. 

We hear about the sons and grandsons of Dhruv leading to the story of Mahraja Ang and his son Ven. We hear how leaders' performance is affected when they are blinded by love. The clash between love and duty leads Maharaj Ang to leave his kingdom and Ven (who is a cruel and deceitful) becomes the king.

Dhurv gets to meet Kuberji and gets a boon that Sri Hari will always remain in his mind and heart. Dhruv remains as a king for 36000 years as the lord ordered and he leaves for the Vishnu lok when the time arrives. The whole story of Dhruv makes us think about bhakti and nishtha again. 

A horrific battle rages between Dhruv and the Yakshas. Some sages advice dhruv to use Narayanastra. As Dhruv uses the divyastra the Yakshas start losing the battle. At that moment, the grand father of Dhruv, Svayambhuv Manu, appears and attempts to persuade Dhruv to stop the battle. He explains the reasons why Dhruv should stop and what he should do next.