Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3644
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3644
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On his way back to the āśrama with the ear-rings, he had only just stepped into a pool for a wash, when a naked Buddha sannyāsin, who was following him, snatched and ran off with the ear-rings. It was really Takṣaka disguised as the sannyāsin who thus snatched the ear-rings. Uttaṅka chased him and caught him when he assumed his original form of the serpent King and disappeared into a cave. Uttaṅka waited at the mouth of the cave stupefied, when Indra deputed his Vajrāyudha to help Uttaṅka. The Vajrāyudha cut a tunnel-like route to Pātāla from the earth and through the cave Uttaṅka reached Pātāla by this route and found out the palace of Takṣaka.