Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1567

c8.1567

Niśākara lived in the well for many years. The fruits of a cluster of plants in the well served as his food. Some ten years afterwards when Niśākara’s mother found the mouth of the well closed with a big stone she asked as to who did so, and from the well came the answer, “Mother, it was father who covered this well with that stone.” Alarmed at this the mother asked who was within the well, and she was answered, “Your son, Niśākara.” Then she argued that her son was named Divākara and that she had no son called Niśākara. But, Niśākara told her about his past life and what had happened to him during the present life, upon which the mother rolled away the stone and Niśākara came out of the well and prostrated before his mother. He then went home with his mother. Questioned as to how and why these things happened by Kośakāra his son Niśākara described his previous life as:—