Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1153

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While Jābāli was going along the forest he saw a young man of handsome appearance engaged in penance on the shore of a lake. Jābāli wanted to know about him and his penance. But as the young man was in deep meditation Jābāli had to wait there for several years. At last the young man awoke from his meditation and told Jābāli the secrets of devotional meditation and contemplation of Kṛṣṇa. The remaining life of Jābāli was spent in the worship of Kṛṣṇa, in consequence of which in the next birth he was reborn as a cowherdess, named Citragandhā in the house of the cowherd Pracaṇḍa. (Padma Purāṇa, Pātāla Khaṇḍa, Chapters 30, 72 and 109).