Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1590

c7.1590

One day he attacked Indra and the latter furious at his impudence used the Vajrāyudha on him and the head and thighs of Viśvāvasu were squeezed into his body. Viśvāvasu pleaded that he should be given some way to take his food. Indra then granted him two very long hands and a mouth on his belly. Then Viśvāvasu spent his days in a forest near the Mataṅgāśrama in Krauñcāraṇya bearing the name Kabandha (Headless trunk). Indra added that he would attain his real form when Rāma and Lakṣmaṇa cut his hands.¹