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Origin · 3 tellings · contested

Soma, Rohini and the waning moon

Soma marries many sisters and favours Rohini; a wasting illness follows; the cure fixes the monthly waning and waxing of the moon.

Soma, Rohini, Daksha, Prajapati

Pan-India West India