[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) › c9.3188 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3188 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3188 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3188) THIṆṬHĀKARĀLA. A prodigal person who lived in Ujjayinī. He used to defeat all in the game of dice. With the money so received from defeated persons he would buy wheat and go to the burial ground and after making bread with it would eat it dipped in ghee sitting before an oil light placed before an idol of Mahākāla (lord of the burial ground). He would then lie there itself and sleep. - [Previous: c9.3187](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3187) - [Next: c9.3189](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3189) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3188](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3188) · Pramāṇa