Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.1991

c9.1991

Indra asked her who she was and why she was weeping. The woman answered him not, but walked in silence, to the source of the Gaṅgā. Indra followed her. When they had thus walked some distance Śiva and Pārvatī were found in the forest at a game of dice, and Indra, afraid of Śiva, ran way. But, Śiva called him back and asked him to enter the cave there. When Indra did so after removing the mountain at the entrance of the cave he saw four Indras sitting there. They were called Viśvabhuk, Bhūtadhāmā, Śibi and Śānti. The woman whom Indra had followed was Śrīdevī. Śiva blessed that the five Indras, in their next birth, would wed Śrīdevī. When the Indras saw Mahāviṣṇu after this he also blessed them, and promised them that he would incarnate and help them when they were born as men in their next life. Then Viṣṇu plucked a black and a white hair and put them on earth. The black hair was born as Śrī Kṛṣṇa in Devakī's womb and the white hair as Balabhadrarāma in the womb of Rohiṇī.