Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.2503

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She became a giantess again, but as she had attained purity of soul, she engaged herself in deep meditation which was free from doubt. The meditation lasted for a long time. Finally, her mind waved. Then she remembered about worldly things and felt hunger. She remembered, “Brahmā has ordained the wicked as my food. So I shall seek them.” Thinking thus she went to a jungle in the vicinity of the Himālayas. That was the dwelling place of foresters. In that dark night the King and the minister of the foresters approached the place where Karkaṭī sat. Karkaṭī seeing them thought, “let me know first if they are good or bad.” So she decided to ask them some questions.