The Legend of the Divine
Craftsman
Vishwakarma, the son of Brahma is the presiding deity of all craftsmen and
architects and September 16 or 17 every year is celebrated as Vishwakarma Puja
— a resolution time for workers and craftsmen to gain divine inspiration for
creating novel products.
(Cleaning
Arts celebrates this day as Employees
Day and rewards all Star Performers)
Vishwakarma's
Architectural Wonders:
Mythology is full of
Vishwakarma's many architectural wonders.
Through the 'yugas', he had
built several towns and palaces for the gods; the Swarg Lok, the 'Sone ki
Lanka', the city of Dwarka, and Hastinapur and Indraprastha.
Indraprastha
The Mahabharata has
it that King Dhritrashtra offered a piece of barren land to the Pandavas for
living. Lord Krishna invited Vishwakarma to build a capital for the Pandavas on this
land, which he renamed 'Indraprastha'.
Legends tell about the
architectural marvel and beauty of Indraprastha.
Floors of the palace were so well done that they had a reflection like that of
water, and the pools and ponds inside the palace gave the illusion of a flat
surface with no water in them.
After the palace was
built, the Pandavas invited the Kauravas, and Duryodhan and his brothers went
to visit Indraprastha.
After Yudhisthira's imperial
yajna, Duryodhana did not leave Indraprastha
and stayed in the Pandavas' palace. He was amazed to see
the wonderful illusions in the palace built by Vishwakarma.
When Duryodhana tried to
enter a door, he hurt his head because it was not really a door but a wall.
When he went further he saw a pool of water and tried to enter it. It was not a
pool but glass which looked like a pool. He hurt his foot with the glass.
Bhima and the other Pandavas who were present there were amused and made fun of him when they saw this.
Then Duryodhana went
ahead but fell in a pool, which looked just like the floor. Seeing this,
Draupadi, the Pandavas' wife, started laughing loudly and said"A blind
man's son is also blind."
And what happened later is another story.
To honour one
of the best worldly creations of the Divine Craftsman, Cleaning Arts brings
forward its Indraprastha Class of service for Floor Care. Let no one
be blind to the world of
opportunities we have to show case our properties in front of our friends and others too.
Indraprastha Class
Exclusive Floor Care
Whether you
have wooden floors or tiles, a simple shine, polish and cleaning can
give the floor a sparkling new look.
