Another version of the story exists where Dadhichi was asked to safeguard the weapons of the devas as they were unable to match the arcane arts being employed by the asuras to obtain them.

However, Dadhichi, realising that his bones were the only way by which the devas could defeat the asuras willingly gave his life in a pit of mystical flames he summoned with the power of his austerities.

Dadhichi is then said to have given up his life by the art of Yoga after which the Devas fashioned the Vajrayudha from his spine.

Dadhichi is said to have kept at the task for a very long time and finally tiring of the job, he is said to have dissolved the weapons in sacred water which he drank.

Atharvan married Chitti, daughter of Kardama rishi, and had a great sage Dadhichi as a son.

Dadhichi however told them of what he had done and informed them that their weapons were now a part of his bones.

The medal symbolizes Rishi Dadhichi, who had donated his bones to the Gods for making Vajra.

) It was believed that this was ancient ashram site of Dadhichi Rishi who had donated his bones for a righteous war, but his actual ashram lies in Naimisharanya, near Lucknow, Uttar Pradesh ; it is between a jail and a crematorium, and he believed that a satyagrahi has invariably to go to either place.

Maharishi Dadhichi Asharam and Sitakund are holy pilgrimage of this place.

When approached by the gods, Dadhichi gladly gave up his bones for the cause of the good, stating that it would be better for his bones to help them attain victory than to rot in the ground.

Dadheech Brahmins / dayama Brahmin trace their roots from Dadhichi Rishi.

Many Jat clans claim to descend from Dadhichi Rishi while the Dudi Jats claim to be in the lineage of Duda Rishi.

One major addition involves the role of the Sage Dadhichi.

Vishnu revealed to Indra that only the weapon made from the bones of the sage Dadhichi would defeat Vritra.

Vishwakarma is also credited with creating the missiles used in the mythological era, including the Vajra, the sacred weapon of Lord Indra, from the bones of sage Dadhichi.

According to puranic legend Dabas are the descendants of Maharishi Dadhichi the great king of Sindh in Vedic period.

Dadhichi, an emperor turned Maharishi, died at the age of 100 while fighting non-Aryan tribes.

An inscription of 999 AD, in the temple of Kevay Goddess, at village Kinsaria near Jodhpur shows that Dahiyas have originated from Dadhichi Rishi.

The chronology of the rulers of Dahiya clan is as under: Dadhichi, Vimal Raja, Sivar, Kulkhat, Atar, Ajayvah, Vijayvah, Susal, Shalivahan, Narwad, Choohad, Deoraj, Gunrang, Kadavarao, Kirti Singh, Bairi Singh, Chachcha Rana.

In 2006, the Smithsonian acceded to a request from the Tennessee State Museum to display Old Glory in Nashville once again.

It was also in 1840 that the British government acceded to a French request for Napoleon ’ s body to be returned to France in what became known as the retour des cendres.

Some historians believe that if India had been at odds with China at this time, as it was to be a decade later, it might not have acceded so easily to Bhutan's request for independent status.

On 25 March 1957 Macmillan acceded to Eisenhower's request to base 60 Thor IRBMs in England under joint control, to replace the nuclear bombers of the Strategic Air Command, which had been stationed under joint control in the country since 1948, and were approaching obsolescence.

Likewise they too acceded to the king's request.

Though Kashyapa had acceded to her request, He had asked her to wait for an hour as it was then the time when Shiva and his retinue of ghosts and spirits moved about ; which was considered inauspicious and unsuited.

And from the Tribune of November 19, " Whenever the slave States or the cotton States only shall unitedly and coolly say to the rest, " We want to get out of the Union ", we shall urge that their request be acceded to.

After Rabbi Chanokh Heynekh died in 1870, Rabbi Yehudah Aryeh Leib ( who became known posthumously as the Sfas Emes ) acceded to the request of the Hasidim to become their next rebbe.

One exception in recent years resulted from Toronto mayor Mel Lastman's request for military assistance following a snow storm in 1999, whereby 300 reservists were activated to assist in snow removal after the Ontario government acceded ; this deployment was deemed by the Canadian government to be a trivialization of the military's emergency response role and the requesting authority was billed accordingly.

The saint acceded to the request of the disciples and that is the reason why the song Jagadanadakaraka contains two mudras containing the name of Tyagaraja while the other four songs contain only one mudra each.

Emma was at Greville's mercy and acceded to his request to change her name to " Emma Hart ".

When the three texts were found to completely summarize all of the Tripitaka and match in every respect, the monks acceded to his request and provided Buddhaghosa with the full body of their commentaries.

The Australian Notes Board ( ANB ) was created in 1920 and partially acceded to the request of Miller, in having four directors, with the Governor of the Bank being an ex officio member.

Tolmie acceded to the request from the business community that a royal commission be established to propose solutions to the province's increasingly dire financial situation.

When McElroy acceded to Eisenhower's request in 1957 that he become secretary of defense, he limited his availability to about two years.

The White House acceded to Ruckhelshaus's request to allow him maximum autonomy in the choice of new appointees.

Reluctantly, Marshall acceded to this request, and Smith took over as chief of staff at Allied Forces Headquarters ( AFHQ ) on 15 September 1942.

Laxalt eventually acceded to Reagan's request, even though doing so severely jeopardized his relationship with the Ford White House.

Rowell acceded to this request, but instructed Allen " any further withdrawal is out of the question ".

Requests have been made by his family and the Italian government to exhume his body and give it a burial outside prison grounds, which request has never been acceded to.

The story as written by Nather involved Kaye's work on rewriting a blackjack program from the LGP-30 to a newer Royal McBee system, the RPC-4000 ; company sales executives had requested to modify the program so that the player has more winning chances, a request that Kaye reluctantly acceded to, but to his own delight, he accidentally changed the odds in favor of the dealer rather than the player.

Against his better judgment, Antipas reluctantly acceded to her request.

In 1989, upon the establishment of the religious political party Degel HaTorah, Elazar Shach asked Elyashiv to join in the public leadership, and Elyashiv acceded to his request.

Humphreys was promoted to major general of volunteers on July 8, 1863, and finally acceded to Meade's request to serve as his chief of staff ; he did not have much of a division left to command.