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Mooshika and the Search for the Strongest Husband - A Kids' Story  Mooshika and the Search for the Strongest Husband Once upon a time, in a land far, far away, there was a little mouse who was picked up by a hawk and carried away into the sky. The mouse struggled and managed to escape from the hawk's grasp but fell from a great height. By some stroke of luck, she landed safely in the palm of a sage who was bathing in the holy river Ganga. The sage saw the frightened mouse and took pity on her. He decided to raise her as his own daughter and turned her into a beautiful girl by sprinkling some holy water on her and uttering some spells. The girl was named Mooshika and she grew up to be a strong and independent woman. One day, her foster father, the sage, asked her to choose a husband. Mooshika declared that she wanted to marry the strongest person in the world, and she believed that it was Surya, the Sun. The sage summoned Surya, but he declined the proposal, s