Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.612

c5.612

Then addressing Dharmagupta first and the lion next the bear said thus : “I am Dhyānakāṣṭha a sage of the Bhṛgu family. I can take any form I like. I cursed you, Dharmagupta, because you cheated a friend. This lion is Bhadra, one of the ministers of Kubera. Once he entered into sexual act with a bear in front of the āśrama of Gautama at midday and the sage cursed him and made him into a lion. The sage as a relief from the curse had further decreed that he would get his original form when he entered into a conversation with me.” When Dhyānakāṣṭha finished speaking the lion changed itself into the form of Bhadra.