GK
INDIAN CULTURE
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Question
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Shiva’s
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Vishnu’s
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Janaka’s
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Lakshmana’s
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Detailed explanation-1: -According to the epic, King Janaka of Mithila set up a test for suitors desirous of marrying his beautiful daughter Sita. Using the celestial bow Pinaka of the God Shiva, gifted to him by the God himself, the suitors were tasked to lift the bow and string it.
Detailed explanation-2: -The Pinaka (Sanskrit: , pínāka) is the celestial bow of the Hindu destroyer deity, Shiva. In popular legend, he is believed to have employed this bow in his avatar as Tripurantaka to annihilate the three cities of Mayasura, known as Tripura.
Detailed explanation-3: -Finally, prince Rama of Ayodhya, the seventh avatar of Lord Vishnu, was able to lift the divine Pinaka, and while trying to put a string to the bow, he snapped the bow into two. King Janaka announced Rama as the winner of the swayamwar, and wed his daughter to the prince as promised.