Word: saradvat
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...
...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...
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