Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1329

c8.1329

7) *Mahāviṣṇu put down Nārada’s haughtiness.* Nārada had been very proud about his greatness as a musician. Viṣṇu decided to put an end to this conceit of Nārada for which purpose he took Nārada to a forest. There they saw many women, whose limbs had been cut, crying on account of insufferable pain. Mahāviṣṇu asked the women who they were and why their limbs were cut. They answered Viṣṇu that they were Rāgiṇīs, the presiding deities over the various tunes and that they were reduced to their present plight by the totally erroneous singing of the tunes by Nārada.