[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) › c5.432 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.432 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.432 - **Language:** English ### [c5.432](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.432) At that time there lived in Tāmralipti a bogus Sannyāsinī (a female anchorite) called Yogakaraṇḍikā. The four youths from Kaṭāhadvīpa visited her, and she undertook to fulfil their desire. She asked them to halt at her house and then went to Devasmitā with some refreshments. Devasmitā’s bitch barked very violently at the bogus anchorite when she told the former thus :—“Child! don’t you see the bitch barking at my very sight. The bitch is crying thinking of her previous birth at my sight. Herself (the bitch) and I were, in our last birth, the wives of a Brahmin. Since our husband was a courtier at the palace often he was away from home and in his absence I used to satisfy the cravings of sex by associating freely with other males. I had even at that time realised the truth that there was no duty higher than satisfying the senses, and so I am now reborn with memories of the past life. As for this bitch in her past life as co-wife with me of the Brahmin, she sinned against her sense-organs by upholding, in ignorance, her chastity, as a punishment for which she was born as dog in this life. Yet, she remembers her past. - [Previous: c5.431](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.431) - [Next: c5.433](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.433) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.432](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.432) · Pramāṇa