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# Matsyapurana 11.45

Matsyapurāṇa 11.45

- **Language:** Sanskrit

### [11.45](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya.11.45)

ramate yatra deveśaḥ śambhuḥ somārdhaśekharaḥ  
umayā samayastatra purā śaravaṇe kṛtaḥ //

> At that time, Śiva and Pârvatî were enjoying themselves in their Śaravana, and they had willed it that any male being, coming within a radius of ten yojanas of their forest, would be transformed into a female being.—45-46.  
> — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, The Matsya Puranam

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## Translations (2)

- [The Matsya Puranam](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-taluqdar.11.p20) — A Taluqdar of Oudh 1916, English
- [English (machine translation)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.matsya~en-mt.11.45) — English, machine translation

## Linked texts (2)

- [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma.1.8.85) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit
- [Matsya](https://indike.org/pramana/in.astro.samhita.matsya.10.45) — Sanskrit

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