Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3410

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The eagle left Mṛgāvatī in the mount of the Rising Sun and flew away. She cried aloud. A huge snake neared her to swallow her. Then a divine person appeared there and saved her from the snake and vanished. Then a hermit-boy came there and asked the lonely woman, clad in only one garment, about her story and took her to the hermitage of the hermit Jamadagni who blessed her. After some days she gave birth to a son. At that time an unknown voice was heard saying “This boy would become the most renowned king Udayana and his son would become the supreme Lord of the Vidyādharas.” Because he was born in the Udayādri (the mount of the Rising Sun) he got the name Udayana. The boy Udayana grew up in the hermitage.