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Uttaṅka
Classical
The same disciple, the same earrings, a different teacher and a different queen, depending on which end of the epic you read.
The sage's earring-quest, and Kṛṣṇa's revelation of the cosmic form in the desert.
Told by Vaiśampāyana → Janamejaya
Who: Ahalya, Gautama, Madayanti, Saudasa, Uttanka, Vasuki
Bound to
Uttaṅka (Paushya) twin
Where this comes from
- CE · Mahabharata, Critical Edition 14.52-57 14.52-57
Another telling
In the Ashvamedhika Parva, Utanka serves his preceptor Gautama until old; Gautama restores his youth and offers his daughter. Gautama's wife Ahalya asks him to bring the earrings worn by the wife of Saudasa, the king made a man-eater by Vasishtha's curse. The text read does not name Saudasa's wife (Madayanti) and ends as Utanka meets Saudasa; the anthill, Indra and Vasuki episodes were not on the page read.
- vulgate (Ganguli) · Ganguli translation of the Mahabharata (read via MahabharataOnline) Ganguli, Ashvamedhika Parva, Utanka and Saudasa's earrings (Section number not shown on the page read.)
- commentary · Wikipedia: Uttanka Ashvamedhika Parva