Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3599

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3599

Language: English

c9.3599

UŚAṄKU (RUŚAṄKU). A hermit. Seeing that old age was coming on him this hermit forsook his body in the Pṛthūdaka tīrtha and went to the realm of Viṣṇu. Ārṣiṣeṇa, Viśvāmitra, Sindhudvīpa, Devāpi and such others got Brāhmaṇya (the state of being Brahmin) by doing penance in the hermitage of this hermit. (M.B. Śānti Parva, Chapter 38, Stanzas 33-39).

Previous: c9.3598
Next: c9.3600
Up: c9

Linked texts (1)

Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit