Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2482

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SUDYUMNA II.
1) General information. A King who was born as a woman and then became a man and then became a woman, all in the same birth. (For detailed story see under Ilā I).
2) Other details.
(i) This royal hermit stays in the court of Yama glorifying him. (M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 8, Verse 16).
(ii) While Sudyumna was the King, to do justice properly, both hands of the hermit Likhita were cut off. (For detailed story see under Likhita).
(iii) Because he had executed the duties of the King properly and righteously, Sudyumna attained heaven. (M.B. Śānti Parva, Chapter 28, Verse 45).