The Purana Index v2.c7.s3.1417

v2.c7.s3.1417

Nrga (II)—a son of Ikṣvāku, liberal in his gift of cows, silver, etc Once a cow of a certain Brahmana got mixed up with his herd, and ignorant of this he made a gift of it to another Brahmana The owner charged him, and when both went to the king, the owner was not prepared to take anything in its place and he who got the gift would not part with it for anything, when he went to Yama’s abode he sent him as a lizard for this unrighteous act, in that form he lived in a well until Kṛṣṇa lifted it up when it became transformed into a celestial, and blessed by Kṛṣṇa rode in an aerial car to heaven,¹ release of, by Kṛṣṇa at Dvārakā,² his lust after more territory.³