Vasishta a sage born from Brahma’s macrocosm and considered his supreme son. Vashishta a handsome hermit indulged in meditation for eons during that period a girl child was born not from copulation but from Brahma’s orgasmic mood. She grew up abruptly into an attractive damsel endearing to all. She was named Sandhya. All creators in heaven were spellbound by her beauty and her father Brahma had an incestuous lust towards her. She despised the carnal desire in her which evoked lust in her father and brothers as the reason for her subjugation where the body gets prominence over her mind. She decided to give up her body and went for penance on the banks of the Chandrabagha River Vashista in the form of a child accompanied her to the river and advised the way of penance. she stood on one leg with hands folded upwards and eyes focusing on the tip of the nose with mind devoted to vishnupada (Foot of Lord Vishnu). This meditation reverberated in all three worlds of Kailasa, Sathya Loka and palazhi {Abodes of Trinity lord Shiva, Brahma and Mahavishnu }Mahavishnu on his mount Garuda appeared before her and asked her to request a boon. it was like this “The organisms should not engage in sensual desires in childhood. lust should happen only in adulthood. She wants to be a loyal wife to her husband and no other person should look at her lustfully and if he does he should become an eunuch. Mahavishnu granted her this boon on the condition that she has to douse in the fire in a Mahayaga on the banks of Chandrabagha River conducted by sage Medhathidi son of Priyavratha to prove her chastity and she will be reborn as a daughter of Medhathidhi after the yaga. Lord touched her with his fingertip and immediately she attained an aura that instigated her to give up her life by plunging into the fire. She was charred to death and her body was accepted by Agnidevan the God of Fire and handed over to the suryadevan the sun god who cut her into two parts which eventually became Dawn and Dusk followed by her reincarnation as Arundathi.
