Dictionary of Pali Proper Names v2.c31.2575

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Knowing her pride to be quelled by this act, Mātaṅga decided to bring her great honour. He, therefore, retired into the forest and, in seven days, won supernatural power. On his return he told her to proclaim abroad that her husband was not a caṇḍāla but Mahābrahmā, and that seven days later, on the night of the full-moon, he would come to her, breaking through the moon's disk. She did as he said and so it happened. The people thenceforth honoured her as a goddess; the water in which she washed her feet was used for the coronation of kings, and in one single day she received eighteen crores from those who were allowed the privilege of saluting her. Mātaṅga touched her navel with his thumb, and, knowing that she had conceived a son, admonished her to be vigilant and returned to the moon.