Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2961

c9.2961

Sṛñjaya expressed his sorrow over having no issues to Nārada who then blessed him to have a son called Suvarṇaṣṭhīvī. The King began performing Yajñas from that day onwards and his queen conceived and in due time delivered a child who was named Suvarṇaṣṭhīvī and he became an ascetic even as a boy. Indra got alarmed by the penance of Suvarṇaṣṭhīvī and tried to frighten him by assuming the forms of various cruel beasts. He also sent his Vajrāyudha against the ascetic, but all to no purpose.