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Sridatta and Vidyutprabha
“We are a thousand granddaughters of Bali, the king of the Daityas, and I am the eldest of all, and my name is Vidyutprabha. That grandfather of ours was carried off by Vishnu to long imprisonment and the same hero slew our father in a wrestling match. Thereafter he had slain him he excluded us from our own city, and he placed a lion in it to prevent us from entering. The lion occupied that place and grief our hearts. It is a  Yaksa that was made a lion by the curse of Kuvera, and long ago it was predicted that the Yaksas curse should end when he was conquered by some mortal; so Vishnu deigned to inform us on our humbly asking him how we might be enabled to enter our city. Therefore subdue that lion, our enemy: it was for that reason, O hero, that I enticed you hither and when you have overcome him you will obtain from him a sword named Mrganka, by the virtue of which you shall conquer the world and become a king.”...Read Kathamukha...Sivkishen Ji, Author