[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c9.510 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.510 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.510 - **Language:** English ### [c9.510](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.510) Once sage Vibhāṇḍaka happened to see Urvaśī at Mahāhrada. At the very sight of her, the sage had an involuntary emission of semen. The semen fell in the water and just then a female deer came there to drink water. It swallowed the semen with water and in due course became pregnant and gave birth to a human child. But the child had the horns of a deer. Consequently Vibhāṇḍaka named the boy "Ṛṣyaśṛṅga". Vibhāṇḍaka and Ṛṣyaśṛṅga lived together in the āśrama. Ṛṣyaśṛṅga grew up into a youth, but he had never seen anyone except his father Vibhāṇḍaka. - [Previous: c9.509](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.509) - [Next: c9.511](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.511) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.510](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.510) · Pramāṇa