Bharadwaja was a great sage who studied the Vedas. However, even three hundred years were not enough for him. Then Indra told him: “Give up the desire to study all the Vedas. Instead, perform the ritual that I teach you, it will endow you with the fruits of Vedic teachings, complete and perfect. "
Bharadwaja decided to perform this ritual. But the sage wanted Shakti to observe the ritual and bless him. Therefore, he went to Kailash, but the time was not right, Shiva and Shakti competed in the art of dance, trying to find out which of them could dance longer. It lasted eight days before Shakti noticed Bharadwaja standing in the cold. She just threw a smiling glance at him as she continued her dance. The sage mistakenly mistook her smile for a refusal, so he turned his back on Kailash and began descending the mountain. Suddenly, his left leg, arm and eye were paralyzed.
Shiva saw that he had fallen, approached him and consoled him. Bharadvaja was told that Shakti actually blessed him and his ritual. Then Shiva restored his strength and healed him by sprinkling water from the kamandalu. In response to the plea of the sage, Shiva and Shakti expressed their consent to attend the ritual. After the ritual was completed, they were so pleased with it that Shiva told Bharadwaja that he and Shakti would take human forms and be born three times in the lineage of Bharadwaja.
