[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c8.1784 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.1784 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.1784 - **Language:** English ### [c8.1784](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1784) 2) Suḥṛllābha. (Gaining friends). Once there lived a tree a crow named Laghupatanaka. The crow saw a hunter coming and spreading a net beneath the tree. A flock of doves coming that way was caught in the net. But the doves flew up in a body and the net was carried from the ground freed of the pegs that held it. The crow followed them and when they were safely landed at another place Citragrīva the leader of the doves, told the crow thus "I shall now show you the benefit of gaining friends." Citragrīva and his doves flew again with the net and landed before the hole of a rat named Hiraṇyaka. The rat was a friend of Citragrīva. - [Previous: c8.1783](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1783) - [Next: c8.1785](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1785) - [Up: c8](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8) ## Cites (1) - [Pañcatantra (Durgasiṃha)](https://indike.org/pramana/in.vernacular.kannada.kavya.pancatantra) — Durgasiṃha (Kannada), Kannada --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1784](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c8.1784) · Pramāṇa