[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.2022 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2022 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2022 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2022](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2022) Afterwards, when Pārvatī was travelling by sky one day, the latter saw and took pity on the Bālakhilyas and told Śiva thus: “These maharṣis are suffering like anything. For my sake, you should put an end to their sufferings. Has their evil fate no end? They are reduced to mere skin and bones, and yet they are denied realisation.” Smilingly Śiva told Pārvatī as follows “You do not know the real course of righteousness. These people do not understand righteousness; they are not free from lust and anger. They are mere fools.” At these words of Śiva, Pārvatī told him thus: If things be as you have said please show me their nature, I feel interested. Then Śiva asked Pārvatī to remain where she was, telling that he would go to the Bālakhilyas and show her how they behaved. Accordingly Śiva went to them. - [Previous: c9.2021](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2021) - [Next: c9.2023](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2023) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2022](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2022) · Pramāṇa