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KUNTI DEVI

The Sun replied: "Dear maiden, I am the Sun. I have been drawn to you by the spell of the son-giving mantra that you have uttered."

Kunti was aghast and said: "I am an unwedded girl dependent on my fattier. I am not fit for motherhood and do not desire it. I merely wished to test the power of the boon granted by the sage Durvasa.

Go back and forgive this childish folly of mine." But the Sun god could not thus return because the power of the mantra held him. She for her part was mortally afraid of being blamed by the world. The Sun god however reassured her:

"No blame shall attach to you. Afterbearing ray son, you will regain virginity.''

Kunti conceived by the grace of the Sun, the giver of light and life to all the world. Divine births take place immediatelywithout the nine months' weary course of mortal gestation.

She gave birth to Kama who was born with divine armour and earrings and was bright and beautiful like the Sun, In time, he became one of the world's greatest heroes. After the birth of the child, Kunti once again became a virgin as a result of the boon granted by the Sun. 

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