The Positive Background of Hindu Sociology c7.s3.17

c7.s3.17

Rāmachandra once went on pilgrimage to a religious site called *Dharmāraṇya*. This *Dharmāraṇya* was a district of great antiquity. The flourishing country about *Dharmāraṇya* had been devastated many times since its foundation by Dharma early in the *Tretā Yuga*, i.e., about 3800 B.C. When Rāmachandra went to visit the place he found that it had been depopulated and devastated by an Asura raider who, as a monument of victory, had placed an iron pillar thereabout. The Asura came to be known as *Lohāsura* or the "Iron Demon."