Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3690

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VĀHIKA. A Brahmin who was well-versed in the Vedas. This Brahmin earned his bread by selling salt. In his life, he had committed sins. At last he was killed by a lion. The flesh of his dead body fell in the Gaṅgā in consequence of which he got remission of his sins. (Skanda Purāṇa 2: 4: 1-28).