[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879) › c5.119 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.119 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.119 - **Language:** English ### [c5.119](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.119) APARNĀ. According to the Hari-vansa, the eldest daughter of Himavat and Menā. She and her two sisters, Eka-parnā and Eka-pātalā, gave themselves up to austerity and practised extraordinary abstinence; but while her sisters lived, as their names denote, upon one leaf or on one pātalā (\*Bignonia\*) respectively, Aparnā managed to subsist upon nothing, and even lived without a leaf (\*a-parnā\*). This so distressed her mother that she cried out in deprecation, ‘U-mā,’ ‘Oh, don’t.’ Aparnā thus became the beautiful Umā, the wife of Siva. - [Previous: c5.118](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.118) - [Next: c5.120](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.120) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Linked texts (1) - [Harivaṃśa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.harivamsa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.119](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.119) · Pramāṇa