The rishi said:
"I can understand your feelings. Once while you went to Deva-loka, you failed to
respect the divine cow, Kamadhenu. In her anger, she cursed you to go without children. If
you please her now, she may revoke her curse." Dilipa
asked: "How should I do it?"
The rishi said: "I have her daughter Nandini in my
ashram. Serve her sincerely, and her mother Kamadhenu may bless you!"
From that day King Dilipa and his queen served Nandini
faithfully.
They bathed her, fed her and worshipped her day after day,
often sleeping in the cowshed, itself.
Twenty-one days went by in this manner.
On the twenty-second day Nandini went out of the ashram and
the king too followed her. |