[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) › c9.666 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.666 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.666 - **Language:** English ### [c9.666](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.666) After speaking thus, Śabarī the great anchorite and chaste woman closed her eyes. Immediately she was transformed into Mālinī, the Gandharva damsel, and all at once a handsome Gandharva prince appeared there in a divine plane. It was Vitihotra, the husband of Mālinī. After saluting Śrī Rāma he took away his wife in a chariot to the Gandharva city. (Kamba Rāmāyaṇa, Araṇyakāṇḍa). - [Previous: c9.665](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.665) - [Next: c9.667](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.667) - [Up: c9](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.666](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c9.666) · Pramāṇa