Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1557

c9.1557

On Śaunaka informing them thus that it was the brahmin transformed into a Rākṣasa, who had paralysed the legs of the horse, Bharata returned to the horse and recited the story of Rāma and immediately an effulgent person came there in a plane and said, "Oh, intelligent King! I have now heard the story of Rāma and so have become pure; so, please let me go to heaven." After saying this he returned. Bharata and others were pleased to know that the visitor was Sātvika brahmin. The horse became free from its paralysed condition. The party resumed its journey. (Padma Purāṇa, Pātālakhaṇḍa, Chapters 47 and 48).