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Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.89

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.89

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c9.89

Brahmā granted all their prayers. The three, proud and haughty due to these boons, began roaming about consuming cows and brahmins. They asked Viśvakarmā to build a city for them and he built for them Laṅkā on Mount Trikuṭa in the south sea. The three brothers took their abode in Laṅkā. Mālyavān, Sumālī and Mālī married respectively Sundarī, Ketumatī, and Vasudhā, daughters of the Gandharva woman Narmadā Mālyavān begot of Sundarī seven sons called Vajramuṣṭi Virūpākṣa, Durmukha, Suptaghna, Yajñakośa, Matta, and Unmatta, and also a daughter called Nalā. To Sumālī were born of Ketumatī ten sons and also four daughters.