Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.950

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.950

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c8.950

MRGĀNKAKA. A sword. Once Kubera cursed a Yakṣa and making him a lion posted it to guard the palace-gates of Mahābali. He said he would be released from the curse when any man on earth defeated it. Once a brahmin warrior named Śrīdatta defeated this lion and at once the lion changed into a Yakṣa and the Yakṣa presented Śrīdatta with the sword named Mrgāṅkaka. (Kathāpīṭhalambaka, Kathāsaritsāgara).

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Kathāsaritsāgara — Somadeva Bhaṭṭa, Sanskrit