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# Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1109

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1109

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### [c5.1109](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1109)

2) Dundubhi's relationship with Rāvaṇa. Maya did tapas for a daughter in the western plains of Mount Kailāsa. One of those days Pārvatī went out of Kailāsa to feed brahmins in celebration of the birthday of Subrahmaṇya. In the absence of Pārvatī a deva woman called Madhurā who had observed the Somavāravrata came to Kailāsa to salute Mahādeva (Śiva) who enjoyed her for some time. On her return to Śiva Pārvatī noticed ashes worn by him transferred to the breasts of Madhurā. Drawing the natural inference from this Pārvatī got angry and cursed Madhurā to be transform-

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