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Updated: May 27, 2025
Now is there any reason to believe that this incident was once part of the myth of Pururavas and Urvasi? Was the fairy-love, Urvasi, originally caught and held by Pururavas among her naked and struggling companions? Mr. To end our comparison of myths like the tale of 'Cupid and Psyche, we find an example among the Zulus.
And once while he was washing his mouth in the waters, he beheld the celestial nymph Urvasi whereupon came out his seminal fluid. And, O king! a hind at that time lapped it up along with the water that she was drinking, being athirst; and from this cause she became with child. And Rishyasringa, devoted to penances, always passed his days in the forest.
Tell her, saying these words of mine, 'As through my instrumentality Arjuna hath learnt all the weapons and other arts, worshipped by all, so shouldst thou make him conversant with the arts of acquitting one's self in female company. Thus addressed by Indra, the chief of the Gandharvas in obedience to that command of Vasava, soon went to Urvasi that foremost of Apsaras.
But Pundarika Nag, being a serpent by nature, could not divest himself, even in human shape, of his forked tongue and venomed breath. And, just as Urvasi could not abide with her mortal lover, after he transgressed the prohibition to appear before her naked, so Pundarika Nag was compelled by fate to leave his bride, if she asked him any questions about his disagreeable peculiarities.
M. Cosquin and others bring in the Vedic myth of Urvasi and Pururavas, but we have seen reason to reject the notion that the tale is, in its essence, mythological, and therefore need not consider its relation to Indian mythology. This is indeed a close parallelism sufficient to raise the general question of relation between the Indian and the European folk-tale.
And Menaka, Sahajanya, Karnika, Punjikasthala, Ritusthala, Ghritachi, Viswachi, Purvachiti, the celebrated Umlocha, Pramlocha the tenth and Urvasi the eleventh, these large-eyed dancing girls of heaven, came there and sang in chorus.
In the poem Urvasi remarks that when she dwelt among men she 'ate once a day a small piece of butter, and therewith well satisfied went away. This slightly reminds one of the common idea that the living may not eat in the land of the dead, and of Persephone's tasting the pomegranate in Hades. Of the dialogue in the Rig Veda it may be said, in the words of Mr.
She suddenly descends with her friend through the air to meet him. Both are at first invisible to him, and listen to his confession of love. Then Urvasi writes a verse on a birch-leaf, and lets it fall near the bower where her beloved reclines. Next, her friend becomes visible, and at last, Urvasi herself is introduced to the king.
Bathing with concentrated soul in the tirtha that is called after the name of Urvasi and that is situate in the river Lohitya, on the day of full moon of the month of Kartika, one attains to the merits that attach to the sacrifice called Pundarika.
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