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| The sage Dewala
Muni, who had also come to have his bath, got angry and cursed the Gandharva chief and
changed him into a crocodile as a punishment. Thenceforward he lived in the lake in the
form of a huge crocodile until he was restored to his Gandharva life by the sacred touch
of Vishnu (Hari), who, with his discus (Chakra), cut the throat of the crocodile while
delivering the elephant from his jaws. On the other hand, the elephant was, in its former
existence, a king of the Pandyas, Indradyumna by name, who was a very pious man of a
contemplative mood, he did not pay his respects to the sage Agastya. The sage cursed him
ad put him in the form of an elephant. He, too, after long suffering, was saved by Hari by
his touch, and was allowed to accompany him to Vaikuntha (heaven). |
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