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नन्दभद्र

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Script: Devanagari

नन्दभद्र

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English |   | 
NANDABHADRA   A righteous Vaiśya. having been childless for a long time this Vaiśya, who was an ardent devotee of god Kapileśvara, got a son in his old age. But he died after his marriage. With this calamity Nandabhadra became a man of abstinence and began to try to acquire spiritual knowledge. after a while a seven-year-old boy appeared before the Vaiśya and quenched his thirst for spiritual knowledge. later with meditation on Śiva and the sun, Nandabhadra attained heaven. [Skanda Purāṇa, Chapters 1, 2 and 46] .

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