Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1319

c8.1319

The Haryaśvas thereupon ran away in different places to find out the limit of the earth, and they have not, like the rivers which entered the ocean, returned yet. At the loss of the Haryaśvas in the above manner, Dakṣa created the Śabalaśvas, whom also Nārada sent away to various parts of the earth. Dakṣa again created five thousand people whom also Nārada drove away in the above manner. Angry and sad at this, Dakṣa cursed Nārada thus:— "Well, Nārada! my children roam about like this because of you. Therefore, you too in future will be roaming about without a permanent abode. Moreover, you will have rebirth as my son."