A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1242

c5.1242

The Nārada-pancha-rātra relates that Brahmā advised his son Nārada to marry, but Nārada censured his father as a false teacher, because devotion to Krishna was the only true means of felicity. Brahmā then cursed Nārada to lead a life of sensuality, in subjection to women, and Nārada retorted the curse, condemning Brahmā to lust after his own daughter, and to be an object unworthy of adoration. Nārada has the appellations, Kali-kāraka, ‘strife-maker;’ Kapi-vaktra, ‘monkey-faced;’ Pisuna, ‘messenger or spy.’