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Kalki and the princess of Simhala

In the late Kalki Purana, Kalki learns from Parashurama, receives a horse, a sword and a talking parrot from Shiva, and through the parrot finds Padmavati of Simhala, whose every suitor turns into a woman; he marries her and the cursed kings become men again.

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Places: Shambhala · Texts: Kalki Purana

The story, beat by beat

  1. Kalki is born to Vishnuyasha and Sumati; Parashurama teaches him.
  2. Shiva gives him the horse Devadatta, a sword and the parrot Shuka.
  3. The parrot tells of Padmavati, whose suitors became women by Shiva's boon.
  4. Kalki goes to Simhala, meets her by a lake and marries her; the kings bathe in the Reva and are men again.

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Kalki Purana

East India · Simhala (Sri Lanka) and Shambhala Vaishnava

Kalki grows up at Shambhala, son of Vishnuyasha and Sumati, and goes to Parashurama to learn the Vedas and the bow. Shiva gives him the white horse Devadatta, a jewelled sword and Shuka, a parrot who knows everything. The parrot tells him of Padmavati, princess of Simhala and Lakshmi on earth: by Shiva's boon any man who looks at her with desire becomes a woman, and her bride-choice ended with every king turned into one of her companions. Shuka carries word between them; Kalki crosses to Simhala, meets her by a lake near the city of Karumati, and her father Brihadratha gives her to him. At Kalki's word the transformed kings bathe in the Reva and are men again.

Kalki Purana (Wikipedia); Kalki and Padmavati (Kalki Purana, English rendering, vedicpeople.com)

Sources: Kalki Purana (Wikipedia); Kalki and Padmavati (Kalki Purana, English rendering, vedicpeople.com)

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