Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2456

c8.2456

1) Birth. Pramadvarā was the daughter of the nymph Menakā born of the Gandharva Viśvāvasu. As soon as the child was born, Menakā threw the child into the forest and left for Devaloka, Sthūlakeśa, a sage who was engaged in penance in that forest in a hermitage heard the cry of a child and came out of his āśrama. On seeing a new-born child lying unclaimed and uncared for, he took the child to his āśrama and named her Pramadvarā and brought her up. She grew into a charming maiden and one day Prince Ruru coming that way while hunting saw her and fell in love with her. The sage was pleased to give her in marriage to the King and so fixed the date of marriage.