[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) › c7.379 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.379 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.379 - **Language:** English ### [c7.379](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.379) Greatly pleased with this boon Ātmadeva returned to his house and told his wife all that had happened and gave her the fruit. She liked to eat the fruit but a year’s fasting seemed troublesome to her. She was thinking of how to get over this difficulty when her younger sister came to her and suggested a plan. She said “Sister, I am pregnant. I shall give you the child I deliver. You can declare it as your child and make your husband believe so. You can announce in public that you have eaten the fruit and have consequently become pregnant. We can, to test its merit, give the fruit to a cow.” Dhundhulī liked the plan very much and so did everything like that. - [Previous: c7.378](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.378) - [Next: c7.380](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.380) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.379](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.379) · Pramāṇa