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SUBAHU (soo ba’ hoo) and MAREECHA (ma ree’ cha):
her sons.
In the Tales:
GAUTAMA (gow’ ta ma): a sage who cursed his wife,
AHALYA (a hal’ ya), turned to stone for infidelity.
BHAGIRATHA (ba ghee’ ra ta): who by his stubborn effort
brought the Ganges down to earth in order to obtain
salvation for his ancestors by washing their bones in its
waters.
MAHABALI (ma ha’ ba lee): a demoniac conqueror of
several worlds; to end his tyranny Vishnu incarnated as a
pigmy called VAMANA (va’ ma na).
MAHAVISHNU (ma ha’ vish noo): the Supreme God, who
divides himself into a trinity named Brahma, Vishnu, and
Shiva for the actual functioning of the universe with all its
beings.