Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4322

c9.4322

Nārada decided to cause harm to Vihuṇḍa. So he went to Kāmodā and by way of telling her news, he informed her that the hermit Bhṛgu had cursed Mahāviṣṇu and changed him into a man. On hearing this Kāmodā began to cry. Red flowers fell from her lips. They were carried down in cluster by the water of Gaṅgā. Vihuṇḍa gathered them and went to the dwelling place of Śiva. Śiva and Pārvatī saw this by their inward eyes. Pārvatī did not like the idea of offering red flowers at the feet of her beloved husband. Śiva found out a remedy for it. He advised Pārvatī to offer pure white flowers at his feet standing as a boy. Vihuṇḍa came with red flowers Pārvatī appeared in the form of a boy. Both began to vie with each other in offering flowers at the feet of Śiva. Gradually it changed to a fight between the boy and Vihuṇḍa. In the fight Vihuṇḍa was killed. (Padma Purāṇa, Bhūmi khaṇḍa, some chapters from 119).