Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.1079

c4.1079

4) Cyavana's gratitude. Cyavana who got back his eyesight and youth asked the Aśvinīkumāras what boon they wanted. They then told him thus: "We are the physicians of the devas. Devendra has unnecessarily put a ban on our drinking Soma (juice extracted from the creeper Soma). When Brahmā performed a yāga at Mahāmeru this leader of the devas did not allow us to take a soma drink. If you are capable of doing it you should get us the right to take this celestial drink." Cyavana promised to do that.