MANDVI BEACH

Kutch Mandvi is an important beach in Gujarat, situated at Mandvi. Mandvi is the historic port town of Maharao of Kutch, located at a distance of 75 km from Bhuj. Kutch Mandvi was once inhabited by the Maharao of Kutch and was an important seaport. The private beach of Maharao is the perfect place, in case you are looking for peace and solitude. It has beautiful white sand, serene locales and enchanting sunset views.


Kutch Mandvi Beach is the ideal place to have fun and enjoy yourself to the fullest. The beach is just the place for swimming and long walks. Apart from this, horse and camel rides are also quite popular here. Savor sweet coconut or hot brewing tea, while watching the neighboring wind mills. The scintillating blue water, enliven birdlife, pristine beaches and colorful fishing hamlets, present just the right picture of the Mandvi town.


You can also watch wooden ships being made in a nearby dock in the town. But, this is not all. There is much more to the town, which boasts of historical places of princely times. It also offers a plethora of items for shopping, like handicrafts, silverware, shell-work, Kutchi embroideries, Bandhini tie-and-dye saris as well as block prints.

KADAMBARI

The king of a race of demigods had a daughter named Kadambari. Mahashweta, the daughter of a celestial nymph, was one of her companions, and met one day a young man named Pundarika, along with a friend of his, Kapinjala, near a lake named Acchoda. Pundarika was the son of a sage named Shwetaketu and the goddess, Lakshmi, and he fell in love with Mahashweta. However, unaware of reciprocation of Mahashweta's love, he died of grief. In a state of grief before dying, he cursed the Moon, who had caused him so much heartache, that the latter would be born on the earth and also suffer pangs of love the way he himself had suffered. The Moon cursed him back that he too would share the sufferings on the earth in his next life on the earth after transmigration of his soul.

A heavenly being carried away dead Pundarika's body to the heavens while Mahashweta heard a voice that she should not end her life since there would be a reunion between her and Pundarika. When Pundarika's body was being carried away, his friend Kapinjala pursued him on a horse. While doing so, he inadvertently ran over a semi-divine being, who then cursed him that he would die and be reborn as a horse on the earth after transmigration of his soul.

The Moon was born on the earth as a son of Tarapida, the king of Ujjayini, and his parents named him Chandrapida. Pundarika was born as a son of Tarapida's minister, Shukanasa, and his parents named him Waishampayana. Kapinjala was born as a horse named Indrayudha, which Chandrapida once subsequently received as a present.

One day Chandrapida and Waisampayana set out with an army on an expedition of conquest over the world. Chandrapida rode on Indrayudha. One day Chandrapida saw a pair of demigods and decided to chase them, riding on his horse, Indrayudha, but the horse carried him away from his companions, and he reached Acchoda lake and met there Mahashweta, who had been waiting for Pundarika. Mahashwveta narrated her life history to Chandrapida, and took him to the palace of Kadambari's father. Chandrapida saw Kadambari there, and left.

Soon, however, he received a message from Kadambari's father that he should return. By this time he had rejoined the army, so he asked Waishampayana to bring the army and hurried back. He was eager to pay a second visit to the palace where Kadambari was, but he could not do so until Waishampayana had returned. He received next the news that Waishampayana had gone to Acchoda lake. Waishampayana had met Mahashweta there and fallen in love with her, but she could not reciprocate the love since she was in love with Pundarika and was waiting for his return. She did not of course know the identity of Waishampayana and Pundarika. Waishampayana pursued her "like a parrot", and Mahashwveta angrily cursed him that he would die and become a parrot in his next life. Waishampayana fell down dead, and became a parrot in his next life. Chandrapida went to the lake in search of Waishampayana, heard about the latter's fate, and, unable to bear the sorrow, ended his life.

In his next life, Chandrapida got reborn as King Shoodraka of Vidisha. One day a woman of the hunter community brought a parrot of wonderful abilities to the king. That parrot was of course a reincarnation of Waishampayana, and narrated to the king the events in his prior two lives. They all next went to the hermitage of a sage named Jabali, who, on seeing the parrot, knew all about its previous life as Waishampayana, and affirmed the parrot's story. On the completion of Jabali's narration and affirmation, Shoodraka fell down dead, and rose back as Chandrapida. The parrot too fell dead, and Pundarika, whose body had been preserved in the heavens, came down to the lake as Pundarika himself.

Chandrapida married Kadambari, and Pundarika married Mahashweta. All lived happily thereafter.

Chandrapida spent his time partly in his own home town of Ujjayini, partly at Hemakuta, the home of Kadambari, and partly on the Moon inasmuch as he was an incarnation of the Moon!

One Day I wrote her name

One Day I wrote her name
Once I was at the sea wondering aimlessly the calmness and majesty of sea
Reminded me of Her large dark eyes suppressing the fire within.
Her hair equally dark as the darkness it self and face like budding rose
Which lend some of its pink color to her rosy cheeks 

On the sea shore I enchanted by her beauty wrote her name 
When the sky was starlit and moon egoistic with its fame 
The waves were battering the rocks. thunderous wave came 
in like her wrath washed away her name.
I again wrote her name on the sand a wave came in softly
Like her smile which took away my all my grief gently 
A wave came in like a chiming of her anklet which enriched
My life since she came to my house, and my life charmed 
The wave kept hitting the shore and washing away her name 
And persisted on writing her name diligently suddenly it was lightening In sky
It brought me back to reality Tears started rolling down my face 
It washed away her name she is no more she is no more my………love is gone

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