Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2233
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2233
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KAUSALYĀ V. The queen of Janaka, the King of Mithilā. Once King Janaka decided to sell his palace and everything he possessed and to go abegging for alms. But his brave wife Kausalyā convinced her husband by her reasonable arguments that he should not venture to do so. Thus she prevented her husband from carrying out his decision.