The Purana Index v1.c5.s7.130

v1.c5.s7.130

On another occasion he went to the woods to gather flowers for Devayānī and this time the Asuras ground him to pieces and mixing them with surā offered it to Śukra who drank it. Again Devayānī persisted wanting him back to life This meant Śukra's death for he had to come out by tearing open his belly. So he taught Kaca the Saṃjīvanī vidyā so that he might restore him after his revival. Thus he did and so he learnt the vidyā. After a sojourn of ten hundred years he returned with due leave from his teacher Now Devayānī offered to marry him but he pointed out that it was not proper to marry his preceptor's daughter. So she cursed that he would not get the fruits of his vidyā and he retorted that she would not find a Brāhmaṇa husband but only a Kṣatriya. Returned to the gods who gave him a share in their oblations; put to death by Vṛṣaparvan’s men.²