Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.648
Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.648
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Once Indra and Ruṣamā bet on going round the world. Both got ready and started. But Ruṣamā walked round Kurukṣetra and returned, while Indra travelled the whole of the way round the world and kept the conditions. The question arose as to who won the bet. The devas gave the decision, “Kurukṣetra is the dais of Brahmā, and so Kurukṣetra contains the entire world. Therefore both Indra and Ruṣamā were declared to have won the bet.”