[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) › c8.1130 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1130 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1130 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1130) Āyus refuted all that the hermit said and requested him to bless him that he might get a son. Finally the hermit ordered the King to bring meat and liquor in a skull. The King obeyed him. Dattātreya was pleased at the devotion and willingness to serve as a disciple and told the King that a son would be born to him; that the son would be a worshipper of Devatīrthas (Holy baths), and that he would not be defeated by devas, asuras, Kinnaras giants, and Kṣatriyas, that he would be the protector of his subjects and that he would be a great scholar in Vedas and Śāstras. Saying this he gave the King a fruit to be given to his wife Indumatī. She ate it and became pregnant. One night she gave birth to a son. When the servant-maid went out of the room of confinement Huṇḍa entered into her body and went in. When all were asleep he took the child and ran to his palace at Kāñcanapura. He gave the child to his wife Vipulā and asked her to make a sauce of the child for him. Vipulā gave the child to the servant woman to cook it. With the aid of the cook she hid the child and prepared a sauce with some other flesh. The cook took the child to the hermitage of Vasiṣṭha and placed it at the door of the hermitage, in the night. At dawn Vasiṣṭha came out of the hermitage and seeing the child took it, named it Nahuṣa and brought him up. The King and his wife Indumatī cried for a long time over the loss of the child. At that time Nārada came there and told them that their son would return soon. - [Previous: c8.1129](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1129) - [Next: c8.1131](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1131) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1130](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1130) · Pramāṇa