Brahma, who divined the reason for the growing weakness of Vishnu and Shiva persuaded Lakshmi and Parvati to return to their rightful places and support their husbands. From that day onwards, Vishnu and Shiva began losing their power. At this Vishnu got angry with Lakshmi and Shiva with Parvati, and in protest the Devis left their husbands. Their wives laughed at the bravado of their husbands. The deities returned to their abodes and spoke about their achievements. At last, they barricaded Kailasa and Vaikuntha as well, so Vishnu and Shiva defeated them after a fierce fight lasting for a thousand years. The Halahalas, who became very powerful within a short period of time, earned from Brahma all the boons they wanted, and they then conquered the three worlds.
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Thus the two rishis spent their days in full enmity towards each other. Vashistha, too, assumed the form of an adi bird, and built his nest on the top of another tree and lived there. The crane Visvamitra built its nest on the top of a tree on the Manasarovara lake and began to live there. Vashishta cursed Vishvamitra to be born in his next birth as a baka (crane), and the latter cursed the former to take birth as an adi (myna).
Vishvamitra urged him to release the innocent child, and when the king refused, taught him a mantram of Varuna, which often invoked, freed him. When he had second thoughts, the guru Vashishta suggested that he sacrifice a Brahmin boy instead, and the king acquired a boy called Sunasepha for the deed. Adibaka: According to the Devi Bhagavata Purana, the king Harishchandra promised before to Varuna that he would celebrate for his propitiation the great Naramedha sacrifice, when he would offer his own son as a victim to be immolated to cure himself of his disease.Samudra Manthana: The churning of the ocean.In the Varaha kalpa, twelve battles between the devas and the asuras are described in the Brahmanda Purana: The divide is the greatest in the Kali Yuga, the final age.
The asuras have atheistic and devious tendencies that grow over time. Both races are technically equal, possessors of great religious and martial powers, but the devas are committed to the worship of the Supreme Being and the practice of virtue.
The perennial battle between the devas and asuras is undertaken over the dominion of the three worlds: Svarga, Bhumi, and Patala, ( Heaven, Earth, and the underworld).