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Originally appearing in Volume V12, Page 953 of the 1911 Encyclopedia Britannica.
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HARISCHANDRA , in See also:

Hindu See also:mythology, the 28th See also:king of the See also:Solar See also:race. He was renowned for his piety and See also:justice. He is the central figure of legends in the Aitareyabrahmana, Mahabharata and the Markandeyapurana. In the first he is represented as so desirous of a son that he vows to See also:Varuna that if his See also:prayer is granted the boy shall be eventually sacrificed to the latter. The See also:child is See also:born, but Harischandra, after many delays, arranges to See also:purchase another's son and make a vicarious See also:sacrifice. According to the Mahabharata he is at last promoted to See also:Paradise as the See also:reward for his munificent charity.

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