Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.546

c5.546

him into a copper vessel containing burning oil. But to his great amazement the burning oil became cold as soon as the body of Dhaneśvara came into contact with it just as it happened once before in the case of Prahlāda. The perplexed attendant ran to Yama and told him of this strange incident. Yama was also surprised at this novelty in hell and called back Dhaneśvara and started enquiring about his life once again. Nārada came there at that time. Both of them then talked about Dhaneśvara. Nārada told Yama how the unanticipated thing so happened because Dhaneśvara on the eve of his death spent some time with people who were observing the Kārttika Vrata washing away thus all the sins accumulated so far in his life. Hearing that Yama took Dhaneśvara round hell and giving Dhaneśvara, the position of a Yakṣa sent him to Kuberapurī. (Chapter 115, Padma Purāṇa).