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Legend · 2 tellings

The gatekeepers who chose three hostile births

Vaikuntha's doorkeepers bar the Kumaras, are cursed to be born away from Vishnu, and choose three lives as his enemies over seven as his devotees.

Jaya and Vijaya, The Kumaras, Vishnu, Hiranyakashipu

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