[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) › c5.545 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.545 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.545 - **Language:** English ### [c5.545](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.545) DHANEŚVARA. A Brahmin born in the city of Avanti. Abandoning the duties enjoined by scriptures to a Brahmin he strayed away from the Brahmin fold doing all sorts of sins. He became a store-house of sins. He was engaged in commerce and once while travelling he reached the city of Māhiṣmatī. There he met many people from several adjoining villages who had come there to observe the Kārttika Vrata. Later Dhaneśvara was bitten by a cobra there and fell down fainting. Very soon he died. When he died the messengers of Yama came and took him bound to Kālapurī. There, Citragupta read out to Yama all the sins Dhaneśvara had committed from boyhood till his death. Citragupta added “Even from boyhood there is no record of any good deed done by him. On the other hand the sins he has committed could not be told in a year. He is an incarnation of evil. He must be roasted in hell till the end of the world.” On hearing this the body of Yama blazed like flame with anger and calling aside an attendant he ordered, “Hi, Pretapālaka, take this sinner away, beat him with spiked clubs and throw him into Kumbhīpāka”. Pretapālaka instantly took him away and breaking his head with a thorn-spiked club threw - [Previous: c5.544](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.544) - [Next: c5.546](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.546) - [Up: c5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.545](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c5.545) · Pramāṇa