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# Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.360

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.360

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### [c9.360](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.360)

(vi) Aṣṭāvakraśāpa. Rāvaṇa once saw sage Aṣṭāvakra at Śleṣmātaka and gave him a kick saying, ‘Oh! handsome fellow! I shall cure your eight hunches”, and the sage cursed Rāvaṇa as follows :—For kicking me, a poor innocent sage, you will be kicked from head to foot and foot to head by monkeys.”

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