[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) › c7.885 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.885 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.885 - **Language:** English ### [c7.885](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.885) 12) Indra and Śaradvān. Śaradvān was born as the son of Sage Gautama. Śaradvān started a penance for acquiring divine arrows. Devendra who was alarmed, sent the Apsarā woman Jānapatī to obstruct his tapas. Deeply affected by her irresistible charm and fascinated by her temptations, he had an involuntary emission of semen, which fell on the Śarastamba and split itself into two parts. Two children a boy and a girl, were born from it. The King’s servants brought them to Hastināpura. The boy was named Kṛpa and the girl was named Kṛpī. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 130). - [Previous: c7.884](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.884) - [Next: c7.886](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.886) - [Up: c7](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7) ## Cites (1) - [Mahābhārata](https://indike.org/pramana/in.lit.mahabharata.vyasa) — Vyāsa, Sanskrit --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.885](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.885) · Pramāṇa