Note 141 — Chapter IV · ANIMAL-WORSHIP.
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Somadeva gives another story of this bird. Rajatadanshtra one day saw his sister Somaprabhâ playing on a Pinjara, and when she would not give it to him, took the form of a bird and flew away with it to heaven. She cursed him that he should become a bird with a golden crest, but promised that when in his bird shape he should fall into a blind well, “and a merciful person draws you out, and you do him a service in return, you shall be released from this curse.”141