Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1566

c8.1566

As soon as Śūrpākṣī left the place the magnanimous Kośakāra handed over the Rākṣasa child to his wife. He brought up his own child by feeding it on cow’s milk, curd, juice of sugar-cane etc. Both the children grew up to seven years of age. The Rākṣasa boy was named Divākara and the other child Niśākara. Both the children were invested with the sacred thread in due course of time. Divākara learned the Vedas, but Niśākara did not, and was despised by all. His father pushed him into a neglected well and covered its mouth with stone.