[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) › c9.3193 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3193 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3193 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3193) When Rambhā's dance was over, there was the dance of a goat. Seeing that Thiṇṭhākarāla said to himself: "Why, this is a goat I used to see daily in Ujjayinī. How did it come here to dance?" When the dances were over and the people dispersed, Kalāvatī took Thiṇṭhākarāla to the Mahākāli temple. Next day he met the same goat in Ujjayinī and then he enquired "Hi, do that dance which you did yesterday before Indra in devaloka. Let me see" The goat stood dumb thinking of how this man on earth came to know of the dances in Devaloka. Thiṇṭhākarāla once again compelled the goat to show its dance but when the goat still refused to dance, he thrashed it with a stick on its head and the goat immediately went to Devaloka and informed Indra about the incident. Indra felt sad when he saw blood oozing from the wound on its head. Indra by his divine powers then understood that Kalāvatī was at the bottom of all this trouble and cursed her to remain as a doll on a pillar in the temple belonging to king Narasimha of Nāgapura. Alambuṣā, mother of Kalāvatī, who heard the curse begged for relief and Indra said she would get freed from the curse when the king himself demolished the temple and razed the place to the ground. - [Previous: c9.3192](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3192) - [Next: c9.3194](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3194) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3193](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3193) · Pramāṇa