Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.381
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.381
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After three months the cow that ate the fruit delivered a child. The ear of the child was like that of a cow and so he was called Gokarṇa. Dhundhukārī and Gokarṇa grew together. Dhundhukārī became a very evil-natured boy while Gokarṇa grew into a scholarly one. Dhundhukārī who was the very seat of everything bad made the life of their parents wretched and the disappointed Ātmadeva renounced all and went to the forests and did penance and attained mokṣa. Unable to bear the torture by her son, Dhundhulī committed suicide by jumping into a well. Gokarṇa started on a pilgrimage.