A Classical Dictionary of Hindu Mythology and Religion, Geography, History, and Literature c5.604

c5.604

GHRITĀCHĪ. An Apsaras or celestial nymph. She had many amours with great sages and mortal men. She was mother of ten sons by Raudrāswa or Kūsa-nābha, a descendant of Puru, and the Brahma Vaivartta Purāna attributes the origin of some of the mixed castes to her issue by the sage Viswa-karman. The Hari-vansa asserts that she had ten daughters as well as ten sons by Raudrāswa. Another legend represents her as mother by Kusa-nābha of a hundred daughters, whom Vāyu wished to accompany him to the sky. They refused, and in his rage he cursed them to become deformed; but they recovered their natural shape and beauty, and were married to Brahma-datta, king of Kāmpila.