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radhama

It was early morning and the sun was beginning to raise from the east . A couple could be seen offering their prayer to river ganga . The women was Radha with her husband adiratha. Adhiratha was chief charioteer of king dhritharastra . They lived in the village of Champa in hastinapur kingdom .

The couple were childless even after many years of their marriage . They used to come to river banks of ganga early morning and pray to river ganga to bless them with a baby .

It was one such day but strangely the nature was peaceful than other days , trees and plants were blooming with beautiful flowers ,weather was lovely and the river was flowing very slowly .

Suddenly they heard the sound of a baby crying and they looked around to find the source of the sound and they were surprised that it was coming from the river , they saw an wooden box which was moving along the current at slow pace . Radha asked her husband to fetch the wooden box immediately and he did so .

They looked at the crying baby whose face had a radiance , ears adorned with shiny kundals .He looked beautiful like lotus flower. It pained Radha's heart to see the crying baby , she took him from the box and held him close to her . Just as she held the baby close he stopped crying as if he found his mother and felt safe in her warm embrace . She felt a motherly affection arising in her , she kissed his forehead and held him closer again .

Radha asked " why do you think anyone would have done such a thing to a newborn baby"

Adiratha replied " I don't know , whatever the reason they are really unfortunate , they must have been in a real desperate situation that they had to get rid of him"

Radha said " Do you think , they will try to find him "

Adhiratha said "I don't think so , if they wanted the baby to be alive they would have given him to some childless parents or some one who will take care of him but leaving a baby in river makes me think otherwise "

Radha said " Usually people  wash away their sins in ganga , so for them he was just a sin. Now he is mine , i will not give him to anybody . Finally God has answered our prayers , he is my son "

Adaratha said " don't worry , nobody will come for him , we will raise him as our own "

Radha kept looking at the baby with tear filled eyes , after some time he woke up , his beautiful eyes were fixed on her as if asking for something , just then her motherly instinct told her that he was hungry she needs to feed him milk .

She fed him her milk which he drank gladly with a cute smile on his face . It suprised adhiratha that his wife was able to give milk even when though she wasn't a mother . He thought that his wife's love for the baby must so pure that she was able do that .

Days went on and people also came to know about Radha's son. Though initially they had doubts about his origin ,they didn't ask them , they were actually happy for them that they finally got what they wanted the most . People called him "radheya" means radha's son. His parents had named him "vasusena" which meant the one who was born with wealth. He was their wealth.

Radha was hypnotized by her baby that she couldn't do her household chores properly , which she used to do with utmost attention earlier. Adiratha was happy seeing the love between the mother-son duo  , so he didn't scold his wife for not doing her tasks properly instead he helped her whenever he was free.

Like this days went on.....

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