Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.2857

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PUṢPAVĀHANA. A King of Rathantarakalpa. He got ten thousand sons of his wife Lāvaṇyavatī. Puṣpavāhana was a hunter in his previous birth. He used to give daily lotus flowers to a harlot who was doing worship of Viṣṇu observing the Dvādaśīvrata. He was doing this service with such devotion that in the next birth he was born under the name Puṣpavāhana (carrier of flowers). The sage Bhrgu once told him about his previous birth and asked him to observe dvādaśīvrata. Puṣpavāhana observed the vrata and attained bliss. (Sṛṣṭi khaṇḍa, Padma Purāṇa).