[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) › c7.1483 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1483 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1483 - **Language:** English ### [c7.1483](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1483) This Jayaśarman who took the fast was the son of a noble Brāhmaṇa named Śivaśarman of Avantī. He was the youngest of five sons. He became a wicked man. So he was avoided by his relatives. Being driven away from home, he went to a distant forest and lived there. Once, by luck, he happened to reach the holy place of Triveṇī Mahātīrtha. He was very tired of hunger and thirst. So he bathed in the tīrtha and searched for some hermitage. By chance he saw the hermitage of Harimitra As it was the month of Puruṣottama many people had gathered there. Brāhmaṇas were telling stories of mitigation of sins. He heard the story of the vow called Kamalāvrata and its fruits. So Jayaśarman stayed in that hermitage with them and took the vow of Kamalāvrata. That night Devī appeared before him and said : “I have come from Vaikuṇṭha, because I am greatly pleased with you. Since you have taken the vow of Kamalāvrata on the eleventh day of the dark lunar fortnight called Kamalā of the month of Puruṣottama I will grant you boons. Because you have taken the vow at Triveṇī, I am immensely pleased with you. The noble Brāhmaṇas of your future generations also will be blessed by me”. Saying these words the Devī gave him boons and disappeared. From that day onwards Jayaśarmā became a great wealthy man and he returned to his father’s house (Padma Purāṇa, Chapter 64). - [Previous: c7.1482](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1482) - [Next: c7.1484](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1484) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) ## Cites (1) - [Padmapurāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/in.purana.padma) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1483](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.1483) · Pramāṇa