Taicira

Taicira

Taicira, also printed Taittira, is the land of the mleccha king Timiraliṅga. The Pratisarga Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa tells that he carried the śālagrāma-śilās there and made a footstool of them, and that Devendra Indra destroyed the land with his vajra.

The śālagrāma-śilās and the vajra

Sūta tells the ṛshis, at Badarī, the account of that kalpa which he saw in yoganidrā. The mleccha king Timiraliṅga came to Madhyadeśa, conquered the Ārya and mleccha kings and did great outrage in Dehalī. He took the śālagrāma mūrti by force and threw it into the fire, loaded all the worshipped śālagrāma-śilās on camels and went to his own land. He came to the land of Taicira, built a strong fort there, and had a pādapīṭha, a footstool for mounting his throne, made of the śālagrāma-śilā.

All the devatās in grief went to Devarāja Indra and said: “Our abode is in the śālagrāma-śilā, but the mleccha king has made the śālagrāma a footstool.” Hearing them, Indra in anger took the vajra in his hand and hurled it with great speed toward the land of Taittira. By the terrible sound of that vajra the whole land was broken into pieces, and the mleccha king died with all his courtiers. The devatās, delighted, took the śālagrāma-śilās and released them into the Gaṇḍakī river, and went back to svarga.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 6

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Pratisarga Parva, Khaṇḍa 4, Chapter 6