[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) › c5.1309 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1309 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.1309 - **Language:** English ### [c5.1309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1309) DUŚŚĪLĀ. A harlot lived in Pratiṣṭhāna. One Devadāsa was her husband. When Devadāsa had once gone to the palace on some business Duśśīlā hid her paramour, with the object of doing away with her husband, on top of the ceiling of her room. He killed Devadāsa while the latter was sleeping in the night. Next day when people gathered at her house she gave out the story that her husband was murdered by thieves. But the people got the true story about the death of Devadāsa from his four-year-old son and beat Duśśīlā to death. (Kathāsaritsāgara, Śaktiyaśolambaka, Taraṅga 2). - [Previous: c5.1308](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1308) - [Next: c5.1310](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1310) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) ## Cites (1) - [Kathāsaritsāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara) — Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1309](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.1309) · Pramāṇa