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Mrigavati carried away
Mrigavati became pregnant. Mrigavati expressed a desire to bathe in a pool of blood and promised to bear a child to King Sahasranika and she asked the king, who was never tired of looking at her, to gratify her longing by filling a tank of blood for her to bathe in. Accordingly, the king, who was a righteous man, in order to gratify her desire, had a tank filled with the juice of lac and other red extracts, so that it seemed to be full of blood. And while she was bathing in that lake, and covered with red dye, a bird of the race of Garuda suddenly pounced upon her and carried her off, thinking she was raw flesh...read Kathamukha...Sivkishen Ji, Author.