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Puranic encyclopaedia

by Vettam Mani | 1975 | 609,556 words | ISBN-10: 0842608222

This page describes the Story of Rambha included the Puranic encyclopaedia by Vettam Mani that was translated into English in 1975. The Puranas have for centuries profoundly influenced Indian life and Culture and are defined by their characteristic features (panca-lakshana, literally, ‘the five characteristics of a Purana�).

Story of 鲹

General.

One of the most beautiful of the women. śī, վdzٳٲ and are really reputed for their beauty.

Birth.

All the famous Celestial women were daughters of śⲹ貹prajāpati by his wife Pradhā. ٱ𱹲ṣi (śⲹ貹) begot the following daughters of his wife Pradhā i.e. ṣ�, Ѿśśī, վܳٱ貹ṇ�, վdzٳٲ, ṇ�, 鲹ṣi, 鲹, ѲԴǰ, Subāhū, śī, Suratā and Surajā. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 65).

屹ṇa cursed.

屹ṇa raped 鲹 and ū cursed him. (See under ū)

ʳܰū and 鲹.

Indra once killed an asura chief named 󲹰 and held a festival in honour of the victory. At the festival 鲹 danced before her preceptor Tumburu. ʳܰū too was present on the occasion and he ridiculed 鲹 for her mistakes in dancing. Moreover he claimed that he was a greater master of dance than Tumburu preceptor of 鲹. Enraged by this claim Tumburu cursed that ʳܰū would be separated from his wife śī. (ٳٲ岵, Lāvāṇakalambaka, ղṅg 3).

鲹 and ṣeṇa.

There was a King called ṣeṇa on mount 侱ٰūṭa. This handsome bachelor prince used to sit alone in the lotus pond near his palace. When once 鲹 passed through the sky above the pond her eyes met those of ṣeṇa and she alighted on the spot and the long talk between the two ended in their marriage. ṣeṇa enjoyed life there for a long time with 鲹 without knowing that she was an woman. He had attempted many a time to know the real facts about her, to no purpose. 鲹 did not even think about her native Svarga. Her companion, a ۲ṣ�, showered gold all over ṣeṇa’s kingdom. In due course 鲹 delivered a beautiful female child and then she told the King that she was 鲹 and that she had continued as his wife till then as she felt love towards him. She further told him that now she had begot a daughter, she was leaving him and that she had a curse upon her which had been redeemed now. She also assured him that they would meet in Svarga in case the daughter was duly wedded. 鲹 departed to Svarga. ṣeṇa named the child ܱdz and when she came of age he married her to Vatsamaharṣi and then went to Devaloka where he lived happily with 鲹 for a long time. (ٳٲ岵, Madanamañcukālambaka, ղṅg 2).

Other information.

(1) The powerful asura called Caturāsya once felt a great yearning for 鲹 and her maid managed things for him. He built a garden-city and presented it to ⲹ in return for her service stated above. (Kamba 峾ⲹṇa, ṣkԻ ṇḍ).

(ii) The Sage Gautama alias Ś屹 experienced seminal emission on seeing 鲹 and from the semen was born ṛpī whom in due course of time ٰṇācⲹ married. (ٳٲ岵, Madanamañcukālambaka, ղṅg 6).

(iii) Indra once deputed 鲹 to break the vigorous tapas վś峾ٰ was observing. She approached him in the guise of a nightingale and with her song disturbed his meditation. The muni cursed her as follows and turned her into a rock. "Oh! evil woman 鲹, you have cheated me, who have mastered desire and anger and so you be turned into a rock for a thousand years. The great brahmin ascetic, Bhūritejas will absolve you from my curse and you will then resume your own form." (ī쾱 峾ⲹṇa. Bālakāṇḍa, Canto 64).

(iv) 鲹 gave a dance performance on the occasion of the birthday celebrations of Arjuna. (Ādi Parva, Chapter 122, Verse 62).

(v) She had lived for sometime in the court of Kubera serving him. ( Parva, Chapter 10, Verse 10).

(vi) When Arjuna lived in Svarga as Indra’s guest 鲹 danced in honour of the former. (ԳśԲ Parva, Chapter 43, Verse 29).

(vii) On another occasion she danced in Kubera’s court in honour of ṣṭ屹 muni. (ԳśԲ Parva, Chapter 19, Verse 44).

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