Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.40

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.40

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c5.40

From this passage which occurs in Kālikā Purāṇa it may be assumed that 'Asiknī' was another name of Viraṇī. Dakṣa did penance in the mountain of Vindhya for a long time. It is mentioned in Bhāgavata, Skandha 8, that Mahāviṣṇu appeared before Dakṣa and gave him Asiknī as his wife.

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Bhāgavatapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit