Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2014

c7.2014

The sage coming to his Āśrama called his disciples to his side and said “To-night a box with a torch burning on the top of it will come floating on the river. You must take it and bring it to me without opening it.” The disciples went to the river and seeing the box coming floating caught it and took it to their preceptor. But from a point high up in the river a prince had seen the box coming floating and had opened it. He had then released the girl from the box and had floated the box again filling it with a black monkey. When the disciples got the box to the guru he said “Take it upstairs and keep it there. There is a Pūjā to be conducted with the recital of sacred verses. It should not be seen by others. You can all go to sleep.”