[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) › c9.3298 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3298 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3298 - **Language:** English ### [c9.3298](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3298) 5) Triśaṅku becomes King. Triśaṅku, distressed at heart by a father's wrath and a Guru's curse walked about aimlessly in the forests. He expressed his desire to the ṛṣis and Brahmins to do a yāga and get himself absolved of all his sins. But nobody was willing to help a wretched man cursed and abandoned by both his father and his Guru. Feeling desperate, he decided to commit suicide. He made a great fire-pit and prepared himself to jump into it. Before doing that he prayed to the goddess and when the goddess knew that his devotee would jump into the fire and become ashes, she appeared before him in person and said thus: "Son, why do you try to jump into the fire? Your father has become old and day after tomorrow he will crown you as King and then go to the forests to do penance. Look, there comes your father’s minister to take you to the palace.” When the goddess disappeared Satyavrata returned to his āśrama in a pensive mood. Nārada went and informed the king of everything that happened in the forest and the king immediately sent his ministers to fetch Satyavrata to the palace. When Satyavrata came the king crowned him as king and then went to the forests for penance. - [Previous: c9.3297](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3297) - [Next: c9.3299](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3299) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3298](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.3298) · Pramāṇa