Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.1398

c5.1398

3) How Ekavīra came to the palace. It was at this time that Śatajit, son of the grandson of Yayāti was doing penance to obtain a son. He was also doing penance in the forest situated at a point where the rivers Kālindī and Tamasā meet. One night a Vidyādhara named Campaka came with a Vidyādharī named Madālasā and seeing the infant lying helpless in the forest took it to Devaloka. Indra recognised it as the child born to Viṣṇu and Lakṣmī on earth while they were living as horse and mare and so the Vidyādhara put it back on earth in the same place as before. Immediately Lakṣmī-Nārāyaṇas appeared before Śatajit doing penance there and asking him to take care of a child lying helpless in another side of the forest disappeared. Immensely pleased at this Śatajit took the child to his palace and brought him forth as his own son giving the child the name Ekavīra. When the boy became a prince, Śatajit crowned Ekavīra King and went to the forest with his queen and after doing penance for there sometime attained Viṣṇuloka. (Skandha 6, Devī Bhāgavata).