Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3967

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Mahāviṣṇu agreed to her request. It was from that day onwards that sexual desire appeared in creatures in their grown-up stage only, after they have passed the stages of infancy and childhood. Mahāviṣṇu told her. “It is preordained that this body of yours will be burnt in fire. Medhātithi, (Meghātithi), the son of Priyavrata is performing the great sacrifice called Jyotiṣṭoma which is to be completed in twelve years. It is coming to a close. There is none equal to him because of this sacrifice. That great hermit’s sacrifice is being performed in the basin of this river Candrabhāgā. Unseen by the hermits, you should go there and get into the fire. Because of my blessing you will be born from that fire as the daughter of Medhātithi. You should go into the fire thinking of him whom you want to be your husband in this birth.”