Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1864
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1864
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According to Śiva’s blessing Rati was born in the world under the name of Māyāvatī. She became the kitchen-maid of an Asura named Śambara. At that time Śrī Kṛṣṇa approached Śiva with a request that he should be blessed with a son. Śiva blessed him saying that Kāma who was burnt up in the fire of his eye would be born as the son of Rukmiṇī, Śrī Kṛṣṇa’s wife. Accordingly, Rukmiṇī, conceived and a handsome child was born to her.