Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3005
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3005
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ŚVAPHALKA. Father of Akrūra. Vṛṣṇi, a Yādava King had two sons Śvaphalka and Citraka. It was divinely ordained that there would not be epidemics and drought in the place where Śvaphalka lived. Once there was no rain for a period of three years in the land of the King of Kāśī. So the King of Kāśī took Śvaphalka with him to his country. With his arrival there was rainfall in the land and the King who was pleased at it gave his daughter Gāndinī in marriage to Śvaphalka.