Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2832.2

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After some days Raṅgamālī also came to the place. On seeing her husband she had emission and from the virile fluid was born a fig fruit. After that both of them flew to the Gandharva loka. I am Raṅgamālī. One day a sage named Jitāsu came that way and this fruit fell before him. From the fruit came out a beautiful maiden and Jitāsu with his divine power understood the whole story behind it and so took the girl to his āśrama and named her Vinayavatī. Vinayavatī grew into a beautiful maiden and stayed in the āśrama. One day by accident I happened to see her and attracted by her beauty tried to rape her. She cried aloud and hearing the noise the sage came out and cursed me and turned me into a camel. I pleaded for mercy and the sage said I would be released from the curse when I was killed by the future husband of Vinayavatī, Puṣkarākṣa by name. Oh King, I am now released from the curse and you should go to the forest named Surabhīmāruta on the other side of the western sea and marry that maiden." Puṣkarākṣa was pleased to hear this and the king going back to the palace and entrusting the administration of the state to his ministers left for the forest of Surabhīmāruta. Reaching the shore of the western sea he was thinking of ways to cross the sea when he saw a Bhadrakālī temple nearby. When he went to the temple he saw a violin in front of it and taking it he played on it a few songs in praise of Kālī and went to sleep in the temple.