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From the epics · 1 telling · contested

Utathya drinks up the waters

Varuna carries off Bhadra, wife of the sage Utathya; the sage drinks the waters dry and turns the land to desert until Varuna gives her back.

Varuna, Narada, Saraswati

Pan-India