Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.3068

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5) Kuntī's wedded life. Pāṇḍu married another wife also called Mādrī, and all the three of them led a very happy life. During one of those days Pāṇḍu went a hunting in the forest and arrowed to death sage Kindama, who was making love with his wife in the forest, both of them having assumed the forms of deer. The sage cursed Pāṇḍu with death the moment he touched his wives, and grief-stricken at the curse he told his wives about it and decided to take to Sannyāsa. But, the wives told him that they would commit suicide in case he took to Sannyāsa. Ultimately Pāṇḍu went to Śataśṛṅga with his wives, and there he began the performance of penances.