In Sanskrit it’s known as as Ardra. In English it’s Betalgeux. The astronomical title is Alpha Orion.
In Tamil solely two stars are prefixed with the phrase ‘Thiru’ which implies ‘most revered’. One is Thiruvadirai and the opposite is Thiruvonam.
Thiruvadirai is Betalgeux. This star denotes Shiva. The opposite star denotes Maha Vishnu.
The presiding deity of the star Betalgeux is Rudra, that’s Shiva.
This star might be simply noticed within the sky due to its measurement and comparatively shut distance from the earth.
In accordance with Sir James Denims, the well-known creator of ‘Mysterious Universe’, the star Betalgeux is so voluminous that it might probably comprise two crores and fifty lakhs of spheres of the scale of our Solar. And the Solar is 13 lakhs of instances larger than our earth. Such is the big measurement of Betalgeux.
It’s so fiery in nature, that one observer has rightly describes the star after seeing it via 100 inch telescope from Mount Wilson Observatory in America thus: “I noticed it blazing; What number of hundreds of thousands of Suns rolled into one! I appeared nearly to listen to the roar of that unbelievable furnace seething throughout the night time, burning with no sign of ending, from the start of time to that incalculable day when time shall have now not any that means’.
That is the third brightest star within the sky.
The Hindu puranas give the title Manmada for the God of Love. Manmada is being recognized as Sagittarius within the sky.
We will see the disappearance of Sagittarius, that’s Manmada, within the western horizon as Rudra – Betalgeux – rises within the east. This has been successfully and picturesquely described within the purana via a easy story.
The puranas say that Manmada is straight away burnt and immediately decreased to ashes as fiery Rudra – Betelgeux – rose up and prolonged his fierce look over the offending cupid.
This episode is being gloriously sung from time immemorial to at the present time in each nook and nook of India. The dancers with their imaginative expertise seize this lovely scene and reproduce it in each stage until at the present time.
Within the Puranas we might discover that at all times the demonic forces are 180 levels reverse to that of the Divine forces.
The sky is split into 360 levels and at all times the divine forces win over the demonic forces that are at all times precisely reverse to them.
Thus, Ardra is one such star glorified by the Puranas, Lord Shiva burnt the evil ardour instantaneously.
That is known as Kama Dahanam that means burning of evil ardour.
Mahabharata describes the burning of Khandava Forests.
Valmiki in Ramayana describes as how Hanuman burnt the town of Sri Lanka.
Napoleon described the historic burning of Moscow in 1812 as ‘fierest, essentially the most terrific and essentially the most elegant sight the world ever beheld’.
These are the entire descriptions of the earthly hearth of a a lot smaller space.
After we consider the fiery perennial burning for billions and billions of years within the sky we’re dumbfounded.
We’re reminded of this nice Betalgeux in our on daily basis life via a small story of Purana.
Observe the sky after which learn the Puranas. We might perceive the Puranic tales in a greater method the true that means of that are hidden within the huge, endless, limitless, immeasurable area.
