[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) › c9.3103 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3103 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3103 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3103) Crossing forests, rivers, cities, lakes, villages and mountains they reached Kanyākubja. There they saw a beautiful lake. Garuḍa landed and Viṣṇu and Nārada got down. They walked along the shore of the lake for some time and then they sat beneath a tree for some time. After some time Mahāviṣṇu asked Nārada to take a bath in the lake. Pleased at this command Nārada placed his violin and deer-hide on the shore and after first washing his face and feet and doing ‘ācamana’ with Kuśa grass in his hand stepped into the water for his bath. Mahāviṣṇu stood near the violin and deer-hide of Nārada and Nārada dipped himself in the water. What a surprise! Nārada was changed into a woman of great beauty. She had no memory of her previous birth and getting herself on to the shore she stood there watching the surroundings. Then a king called Tāladhvaja came on horse-back that way. He addressed the beautiful woman as Saubhāgyasundarī and started talking with her. Within hours they got married and Tāladhvaja took her to his palace and spent the honey-moon there happily. Twelve years went by and Saubhāgyasundarī became pregnant. In due course she got a son named Vīravarmā. After another two years she got another son named Sudharmā. Thus she delivered a son every two years for twentyfour years becoming the mother of twelve sons. After some time she bore eight more sons also. When all the twenty sons came of age they were married according to the custom and in due course those sons also got sons. Thus Tāladhvaja and Saubhāgyasundarī became the heads of a large family of children and grand-children and lived happily. One day a king from a far-off place with a great army suddenly came and surrounded Kanyākubja. In the fight that ensued most of the sons and grand-sons of Saubhāgyasundarī were killed. The king fled from the battlefield and came to the palace. Saubhāgyasundarī was in great distress and when the enemies left the battlefield she secretly went there to have a last look at her sons and grandsons lying dead. The sight terrified her. They lay there without heads, hands or legs, eyes protruded, stomach cut open, intestines lying out and blood oozing out from everywhere. She fell to the ground - [Previous: c9.3102](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3102) - [Next: c9.3104](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3104) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3103](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3103) · Pramāṇa