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Harivamsha Purana
Seeing him, Kanakmala was delighted and said, "Listen, Kama, I will tell you something. If you want, I will teach you the Gauri and Prajnapti vidyas." ||63|| Then, Pradyumna, desiring her favor, said, "This is your grace, I want them, please give me the vidyas." Kanakmala, following the proper procedure, gave him the two vidyas, which were difficult to obtain even for the Vidyadharas. ||64|| Pradyumna, with outstretched hands, received the vidyas and was very happy. After receiving them, he spoke these excellent words: "Earlier, you saved my life by bringing me to the forest, and now you have given me the vidyas. By giving me life and knowledge, you are my guru." Saying these excellent words, he circumambulated her thrice, bowed his head, and stood before her. Then, he requested her to give him whatever instructions were appropriate for a son. After that, he went away. ||65-66|| Knowing that she had been deceived by him, Kanakmala, in a fit of anger, struck her chest, breasts, and sides with her nails. ||67|| She then showed her body to her husband and said, "My lord, look at what Pradyumna has done!" Her husband, believing her deception, was also angry. ||68|| King Kalasambara, enraged by this incident, called his five hundred sons in private and said, "Kill Pradyumna in such a way that no one else knows about it." ||69|| Having received their father's order, the wicked princes, filled with joy, took Pradyumna with them the next day and went to the lake called Kalambhu. ||70|| They all jumped on Pradyumna at once, desiring to kill him, and repeatedly urged him to play in the water of the lake. ||71|| At that moment, the Prajnapti vidya told Pradyumna everything that was happening. Hearing this, Pradyumna became very angry and instantly hid his real body through magic and jumped into the lake with a false body. As soon as he jumped, all the princes, like merciless thunderbolts, jumped on him, desiring to kill him. ||72-73|| Pradyumna, with his feet upwards and his clothes downwards, killed all the princes except one, leaving him alive. He made his brother the bearer of five braids and sent him to Kalasambara to deliver the news. ||74||
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