[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) › c9.2446 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2446 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.2446 - **Language:** English ### [c9.2446](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2446) The king’s army saw the preparations of the hogs and their resolute stand. Struck with fear, they informed Ikṣvāku about it. The king ordered the noble hog to be caught. Ikṣvāku and his wife mounted on horse and followed the army. All the hounds ran towards the hogs barking. The army sent a volley of arrows at the hogs. The hog and his wife stopped the arrows. The army could not defeat the hogs. At last the king himself killed the hog with a club. While the king was looking on, that noble hog was changed to a noble Gandharva with four hands and divine clothes and ornaments. Leaving his old body of hog on the earth he rose up into the sky like the Sun and went to heaven. Seeing this sight Sudevā was struck with fear. She got down from the chariot and called the wife of the hog towards her. The wife of the hog, wounded all over, came to the queen Sudevā. Sudevā asked her about the previous history of her dead husband. The hog’s wife said: “Lady! If you feel interested I shall tell you about the previous life of my dead husband and myself.” - [Previous: c9.2445](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2445) - [Next: c9.2447](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2447) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2446](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.2446) · Pramāṇa