AHALYA

"When the sin had been sinned, realising its heinousness and the fierce spiritual energy of her betrayed husband, she warned

Indra of his terrible peril and begged him to be gone in the instant.

Indra was fleeing in guilty panic; but unfortunately for him he almost bumped into the rishi who was just returning from his ablutions, clad in wet garments and radiating spiritual lustre. Pretence was hopeless before that all-seeing wisdom and Indra bowed in abject supplication, and threw himself on the mercy of the rishi. The sage looked at him with wrath and loathing and cursed him:

'Lustful beast as you are, dead to all truth and righteousness, may your manhood fall away from you.'

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