Who is kali purusha

Nala, meanwhile, saved the Naga Karkotaka from fire where he was cursed to suffer by sage Narada. Intending to exorcize the devil within him, the serpent bit Nala, injecting him with deadly poisons that forever tortured Kali. The venom also changed Nala into an ugly dwarf named Bahuka. He later became the charioteer of the Ayodhya King Rituparna, who was a master mathematician and dice player. Years later, King Rituparna revealed to Bahuka the supreme skill of controlling the dice in exchange for horsemanship lessons.

He then counted the fruits of the tree and left in search of his wife and later regained his true form. Kali returned to his abode as well. Kali was later incarnated as king Duryodhana, eldest of the one hundred Kaurava brothers.

His companion Dvapara became his uncle Shakuni. The day Duryodhana was born, he unleashed a donkey-like scream which the donkeys outside the home replied to. Despite the advise from Vidura to discard the evil baby, Duryodhana's father Dhritarashtra kept the child because demons had received a boon from Shiva that the future king would be invincible.

At the onset of Kali Yuga, once king Parikshit went hunting in the forest. Just then in the middle of the way, Kali, appeared before him and asked permission to enter his kingdom, which the king denied. Upon insisting, Parikshit allowed him five places to reside: where there is gambling, alcohol consumption, prostitution, animal slaughter and gold.

Kali smartly entered into Parikshit's golden crown and spoiled his thoughts. Parikshit entered the hut of a sage named Shamika as he was thirsty.

He found the sage in deep meditation. He bowed to him several times but as there was no response. In anger, he took a dead snake and threw it around the sage's neck.

Later when the sage's son, Shringin, heard of this incident he cursed the king to die of snake bite on the seventh day. On hearing this, the king forswore the throne for his son Janamejaya and spent his last seven days listening to the discourses of sage Shuka, compiled as the Bhagavata Purana under the banyan tree of Shukratal. As prophesied, the snake king Takshaka bit Parikshita, who left his mortal remains behind and attained Moksha.

According to Markandeya Purana, the Brahmin Pravara was given a magical ointment that allowed him to fly. But when he flew to the Himalayas, the ointment was washed away from the bottoms of his feet keeping him from returning home to his wife. During this time, the nymph Varuthini fell madly in love with him and begged the Brahmin to stay with her forever.

But eventually, he rejected her. He prayed to Agni who returned him home safely. The gandharva Kali was in love with Varuthini and had been rejected by her in the past. He saw how she hungered for the Brahmin, so he took on the appearance of Pravara and came before the courtesan. He led her into the bedchamber and told her to close her eyes during their sex [sambhoga]. Another version of this tale explains the reason he told her to shut her eyes was because gods revert to their true forms whenever they do the basest of things, such as eating, sleeping, and making love including dying for demons.

As they made love, Varuthini noticed that his body became flaming hot and believed it was because his Brahmin spirit was infused with the sacrificial fire. After climax, Kali, still-as-Pravara, left the apsara and returned to his abode. He has been deputed by Lord Brahma to cause harm to the sinful people, and to even change the minds of the noble people, in order to make them to commit crimes.

Though he is considered as a wicked demon, he is doing his duty as per the Yuga Dharma, and as per the orders of Lord Brahma. He appears very ugly, and contains a dark face. During the Dwapara Yuga, he appeared before the great Yudhishtira and promised him that he would not give any sort of problems to his kingdom.

Kali is a demon from Hindu mythology who is described as a being of great power and in some sources the origin of evil itself. He is the archenemy of Kalki, the tenth and final Avatar of Vishnu. He has also incarnated as prominent monsters, such as Ravana , and is similar to Kroni , who can be considered his Ayyavazhi mythological counterpart. Despite sharing the same name, Kali is not the same entity as the fearsome goddess Kali , who, while vicious, is a divine being and ultimately promotes good.

The demon Kali promotes only chaos and destruction, without any of goddess Kali's more positive ideals. Kali is the ruler of the most corrupt and violent of the Hindu cycles, in which mankind abandons the gods, and morality is replaced with open hostility and depravity.

This cycle is known as the Kali Yuga , named after its infernal nature and the demon which oversees such evil. Kali symbolizes everything that is unholy, the destruction of balance, peace and life itself. When life becomes intolerable for good people and mankind is entirely under Kali's chaotic power, it is prophecized that Kalki shall be born and take arms against Kali and his many minions, becoming the "divine chastiser" who shall punish the wicked men who thrive in the Kali Yuga at the cost of others.

He shall also do battle with Kali personally and slay the monster to free the universe from Kali's cruel rule and re-establish order.