Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3642
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3642
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c9.3642
2) *His tuition fee.* His education being over, it was now time for Uttaṅka to give due offerings—tuition fee to his guru, and Uttaṅka enquired of the guru as to what he would have by way of dakṣiṇā. The guru asked Uttaṅka to get his wife's instruction in the matter and act accordingly. Because of the aforesaid incident (Uttaṅka not acting on the guru's wife during her menstrual period) she had a grouse against him, and therefore, asked him to bring as his tuition fee the ear-rings worn by the Kṣatriya wife of King Pauṣa.