Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2851

c8.2851

A śūdra named Śambūka started performing penance in Rāmarājya as a consequence of which there started a series of infant deaths in the country. Śrī Rāma knew the cause and he got down by meditation the Puṣpaka Vimāna from Kubera. When the plane came from Kubera Śrī Rāma got into it and flew to the place where Śambūka was doing penance and on reaching there killed the Śūdra and saved the country from a calamity. The Vimāna was then sent back to Kubera. (Uttara Rāmāyaṇa).