[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) › c5.1652 # A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1652 A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.1652 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1652](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1652) The Vishnu Purāna gives a more simple version. While Satya-vrata was a Chandāla, and the famine was raging, he supported Viswāmitra’s family by hanging deer’s flesh on a tree on the bank of the Ganges, so that they might obtain food without the degradation of receiving it from a Chandāla : for this charity Viswāmitra raised him to heaven. - [Previous: c5.1651](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1651) - [Next: c5.1653](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1653) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Viṣṇupurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.visnu) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1652](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.dowson-1879.c5.1652) · Pramāṇa