Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.840

c5.840

Dhruva began penance in the forest of Madhuvana on the river Jamunā. Sunīti came and tried to take him to the palace. But he did not return. He intensified his penance more and more. At last Mahāviṣṇu appeared before him. Dhruva requested for a lofty, and eternal place which would become a prop of the world. Accordingly, Viṣṇu pointed out to Dhruva, a noble place, higher than the planets, stars Saptarṣis (Ursa Major) and the devas who travelled in aeroplanes. Mahāviṣṇu said that Dhruva would live in a lofty place as a star till the end of the Kalpa and his mother Sunīti would also remain as a star near Śiva as long as Dhruva lived (Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Aṃśa 1, Chapters 11 and 12).