Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1611

c8.1611

Angered at this the brahmins cursed that Nrga be converted into a chameleon and live as such for a thousand years. The King heard about the curse and ran up to the brahmins and requested for absolution from it. The brahmins then said that after one thousand years Mahāviṣṇu would incarnate as Śrī Kṛṣṇa and that at his touch Nrga, the chameleon would resume his former form as King. According to this curse Nrga was born as a chameleon in a neglected well at Dvārakā. One day Sāmba and others who happened to go near the well tried their best to take the chameleon out of it, to no purpose. At last Kṛṣṇa with his attendants came and took it out of the well. At Kṛṣṇa’s touch it resumed its form as King Nrga, and related the story of his curse to the onlookers, who stood there wondering