[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c4.3029 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.3029 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c4.3029 - **Language:** English ### [c4.3029](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.3029) Mahāviṣṇu once looking at the face of Lakṣmī laughed without any apparent reason. Lakṣmī, thinking that Viṣṇu was laughing at her and that he had an eye on some other woman more beautiful than her lost her temper and cursed Viṣṇu that his head would be severed from his body. - [Previous: c4.3028](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.3028) - [Next: c4.3030](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.3030) - [Up: c4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.3029](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c4.3029) · Pramāṇa