Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2449

c9.2449

The wife of the hog continued the story. "Lady! I also have taken rebirth as a hog. In my previous birth I was the daughter of a Brahmin named Vasudatta (Vāsudeva) in the city of Śrīpura in Kaliṅga. They named me Sudevā (Vasudevā). Because of the unlimited caressing and fondling of my father I grew up as an arrogant girl. In the meanwhile a Brahmin youth named Śivaśarmā, who was well-versed in all the branches of knowledge, and whose parents were dead, came to my house. My father gave me to that Brahmin. I lived with him in my father's house. Being proud of the wealth and prosperity of my parents I did not care to render the services due to my husband. My husband who was a peaceful man bore everything. By and by I became wicked. At last because of my wickedness and immorality my husband left the country. My father hated me and expelled me from the house. My father feared that some calamity would happen to me as Kaṃsa was born to Padmāvatī, the wife of Ugrasena, by her illegal connection with persons other than her husband."