[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) › c7.584 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.584 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.584 - **Language:** English ### [c7.584](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.584) Añjanā also has a story of her own. Once upon a time she was the maid-servant called Puñjikasthalā of Bṛhaspati. One day she went out to gather flowers when the love-makings of other young women attracted her so much that, without gathering flowers, and her erotic sentiments being aroused much, she returned home and covered Bṛhaspati with kisses. Bṛhaspati got really angry with the misbehaviour of his maid-servant and cursed her into a female monkey. She was told that, after she had lived for sometime with a monkey-husband she would get a child from the vitality of Śiva, after which she would return to him as maid servant as of old. And, accordingly, Puñjikasthalā became a female monkey under the name Añjanā and lived at Añjanā forest with a handsome monkey called Kesari as her husband. - [Previous: c7.583](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.583) - [Next: c7.585](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.585) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.584](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.584) · Pramāṇa