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Pisacha Kanabhuti
Vararuci wandered through the Vindhya forests which were teeming with apes and tigers but had no human habitation and no water. At length, Vararuci came upon a Nyagrodha Tree and near it, he saw the Pisacha Kanabhuti, himself like an enormous Sala tree, surrounded by hundreds of other Pisachas. When Kanabhuti saw Vararuci, he rose and touched his feet. Vararuci sat next to him and said, ‘You are obviously a person of good breeding. How have you become like this?’ Because Vararuci had shown him such courtesy and affection, Kanabhuti said, ‘I do not know how this happened to me but I will tell you what I heard from Shiva himself in the cremation ground at Ujjaini....Read to know more at  Katha Pitha...Sivkishen Ji, Author