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Essay name: Studies in the Upapuranas

Author: R. C. Hazra

This book studies the Upapuranas: a vast category of (often Sanskrit) literature representing significant historical, religious, and cultural insights of the ancient Indian civilization. These texts provide rich information, especially on Hinduism covering theology, mythology, rituals, and dynastic genealogies.

Page 334 of: Studies in the Upapuranas

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THE MINOR VAISNAVA UPAPURĀṆAS 317 received from Bhrgu living on the bank of the Godavari. (-Chaps.
7-8 and 13-15).
SaudÄsa Mitrasaha's turning a RÄká¹£asa for twelve years as a result
of Vasistha's curse brought on him by a RÄká¹£asa who caused SaudÄsa
to offer human flesh to Vasistha by appearing first in the form of
Vasistha and then in that of SaudÄsa's cook and thus took revenge for
SaudÄsa's killing, during a hunting expedition in a forest on the
bank of the Reva (NarmadÄ), his female mate sporting with him in
the form of a tigress. SaudÄsa's having the name KalmÄá¹£apÄda for
throwing on his own feet the waters with which he was going to
curse Vasistha for the mischief done by him. SaudÄsa's eating up of
a Brahmin sage on the bank of the Narmada, and the latter's wife's
curse to SaudÄsa to continue to be a RÄká¹£asa for long and to meet
death, during sexual enjoyment. SaudÄsa's curse to the Brahmin
woman to be a PiÅ›Äci. SaudÄsa and the Brahmin woman's meeting
with a Brahma-rÄká¹£asa, who was formerly a Brahmin, named Somadatta,
of Magadha; SaudÄsa and others' regaining higher states of existence
by coming in contact with the waters of the GangÄ. (-Chap.9).
120 Aditi's austerities after the gods' defeat in a war¹30 with Bali, and
Visnu's birth to her as Vämana and redemption of the kingdom of
heaven for the gods. Origin of the GangÄ from the waters with which
Vamana's feet were washed by Bali. (-Chaps. 10-11).
Unconscious performance of the DhvajÄropaṇa-vrata by a reckless
Śūdra named Mätali and a NisÄda woman named Kokilini, who, after
death, passed to the region of Viṣṇu and were then reborn re-
spectively as king Sumati of the Lunar race and his queen Satyamati.
(-Chap. 18).
King Dharmakirti's degradation by coming under the influence
of the Pasandas, but his rebirth to sage GÄlava as his extremely pious
son by unconsciously performing the EkÄdasi-vrata. (-Chap. 21).
120 In describing this war the Bá¹›hannÄradiya-p. names a large variety of
missiles, which are as follows: Drughana, BhindipÄla, Khaá¸ga, ParaÅ›u, Tomara,
Parigha, ChurikÄ, Daṇá¸a, Cakra, Åšaá¹…ku, Muá¹£ala, AnkuÅ›a, Läṅgala, Paá¹­á¹­iÅ›a,
Åšakti, Upala, Åšataghni, PrÄsa, Ayodaṇá¸a, Musá¹­i, Śūla, Kuá¹­hÄra, PÄÅ›a, Ká¹£udra-
yaṣṭi (or, Ká¹£udra and Yasti?), Bá¹›hacchara, Ayomukha, Tuná¸a, Cakra-daṇá¸a,
Ká¹£udra-partiÅ›a, NÄrÄca.—BnÄr. 10, 23-27.

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