Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2258

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KAUTHUMI. Son of a Brahmin named Hiraṇyanābha. Once this Brahmin went to the hermitage of King Janaka and entered into a controversy with the Brahmins there. In the argument Kauthumi became angry and killed a Brahmin. From that day he became a leper. The sin of Brahmahatyā (murder of Brahmin) also followed him. Finally according to the advice of his father he worshipped the sun God, with Śrāvya-saṃjñakasūkta (a spell or incantation) and by the blessing of the Sun God he got deliverance from the sin of Brahmahatyā and the disease of leprosy. (Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, Brāhma Parva).