Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.111

c9.111

Afterwards Viṣṇu directed Āditya (Sun) and Ākhaṇḍala (Indra) to look after Raktaja and Svedaja. He told Āditya further :—“At the end of the Dvāpara yuga you should see that Svedaja is reborn, in the interests of the Devas, as your son. In the Yadu dynasty will be born a very powerful fellow called Śūra and he will have a very beautiful daughter named Pṛthā. Durvāsas will advise her some mantras as a boon and she will have some sons from the Devas whom she will invoke with the mantras. With that object in view, while in her periods, she would, at the time of dawn gaze at you with love. Then he (Svedaja) will be born as the son called Vasuṣeṇa of Kunti, the virgin.”