[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.2910 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.2910 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.2910 - **Language:** English ### [c7.2910](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2910) 10) Kubera cursed Virūpākṣa. Kubera had a yakṣa called Virūpākṣa as Manager, and he was in charge of Kubera’s treasures also. Virūpākṣa had employed a gigantic yakṣa to look after the treasures outside the capital. One day a brahmin called Pāśupata came in search of treasures to Alakāpurī. He knew a very peculiar art, viz. he would go about with a lamp lighted with ‘the ghee of men’ (oily substance extracted from human body) and the lamp would tumble down from his hands on earth at spots where treasures lay hidden. Pāśupata tried to unearth Kubera’s treasures by the above means, and Virūpākṣa who got scent of the brahmin’s activities got him killed. Since a brahmin (Pāśupata) was killed the sin of brahmahatyā affected the Yakṣa community, and angered at this Kubera cursed Virūpākṣa into a man, and he was born on earth as the son of a brahmin, who told her complained about this curse to Kubera, who told her that she would be born as a daughter of the maid-servant of the brahmin as whose son her husband was born, and that he (son) would marry her. Kubera, further told her that association with her would redeem Virūpākṣa from the curse and that both of them would return to him. Accordingly she lay as a human child at the gates of a brahmin maid-servant, who took it to her master. The child and the brahmin’s son grew up together in his father’s house, and in due course they were wedded to each other. They felt so happy as though at a reunion after a long separation. First the brahmin boy and after him his wife expired, and they returned to Alakāpurī. (Kathāsaritsāgara) - [Previous: c7.2909](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2909) - [Next: c7.2911](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2911) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) ## Cites (1) - [Kathāsaritsāgara](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.brhatkatha.kathasaritsagara) — Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2910](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.2910) · Pramāṇa