Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3796
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.3796
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b) The second story of the incarnation of Vāmana. Dhundhu, an asura boy, was born to Kaśyapa by his wife Danu. That asura did penance and pleased Brahmā. He made a request that he should not be killed by Indra and the other gods or anybody else. Brahmā, who was pleased at his penance, gave him the boon he asked. The boy Dhundhu, at the beginning of the fourth Kaliyuga, during the period of Hiraṇyakaśipu, went to heaven and defeating Indra and the other Devas, established his rule there as Indra. The mighty Hiraṇyakaśipu was travelling on the mountain Mandara as an official under Dhundhu.