Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.3976

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g) Seeing Arundhatī. In India there is a custom of showing the women, the star Arundhatī. Arundhatī is the first of the women who took only one husband in her life. The meaning of this custom is this that this mentality of Arundhatī should be acquired by the married women of India. Moreover, if the star stands in front of the star Vasiṣṭha, it is considered to forebode calamities in the world. (Kālikā Purāṇa).