Sulocanā Vishakanyā Moksha

After the war at Bhallāṭanagara, Bhagavān Kalki marched on Kāñcanīpura. It was a city of serpent-women, and a vishakanyā (a woman whose gaze is poison) lived in it. A voice from the sky told Kalki to enter alone. Inside he met Sulocanā, a Gandharva’s wife who lived under a śāpa (a curse). His gaze ended the śāpa and she rose to her husband’s world. Kalki then placed kings over the lands he had won and went back to Śambhala, where Dharma and Kṛta Yuga stood fully established.

The march to Kāñcanīpura

The campaigns at Bhallāṭanagara were over, and Śaśidhvaja had left for the forest. Kalki turned his army toward Kāñcanīpura. The Kalki Purāṇa describes this city as unlike any other city of the conquest.

Mountain ranges surrounded it.
Walls that no one could break defended it.
Visha-sarpas (poison snakes) guarded it, and made even the roads impassable.
Only nāgakanyās lived there, serpent-women of unearthly beauty and deadly power. There were no human beings in the city.

Kalki’s army broke through the outer defences and killed the poison snakes along the ways in. Kalki himself entered the city at the head of his army. But at the gates a divine voice from the sky stopped the army: “Only Kalki, alone, may enter this city. If any other person enters, the gaze of the vishakanyā will kill them all at once.”

The kings and soldiers stood at the gate and could go no further.

Kalki enters alone

Kalki took only his Śuka, the divine and all-knowing parrot that Bhagavān Śiva had given him. He rode his horse, sword in hand, and went into Kāñcanīpura alone.

Inside, the city was a wonder. It had jewel work, golden ornament, golden paintings on the walls and beautiful houses. Haricandana trees stood along every road. Yet no human being was there. Only the nāgakanyās lived in it.

Kalki looked around in surprise and said with a smile: “How strange this city is! It fills ordinary people with fear. Its serpents and the vishakanyā have made it closed to the world. Shall we go in?”

The Śuka urged him on, and Kalki went forward.

Kalki meets Sulocanā

Deep in the city Kalki met Sulocanā. She was very beautiful, yet danger showed even in the way she stood. She spoke first. Tears were in her eyes, and her voice was joyful and pained at once.

She said: “In this world many great warriors, kings, devas and asuras have been killed by my gaze. This is why I live in sorrow and alone. No deva, no asura and no human can look at me with love and live. Yet now your lotus-petal eyes are pouring something like amṛta (the nectar of life) on me. I am vishadṛshṭi, one whose look is poison, and you are amṛtadṛshṭi, one whose look is nectar. How great the difference is! By what tapas (austerity) has this meeting come to me, who have so little fortune?”

Then she told who she was. She was Sulocanā, wife of Citragīva, a Gandharva. One day she and her husband were flying in a vimāna (a flying chariot). They came to the foothills of Gandhamādana mountain and played in the groves of the valley, drunk with youth and beauty. A muni of strange appearance was meditating nearby. Sulocanā, proud and playful, laughed at him. The muni’s anger came at once. He gave her a śāpa: she would become a vishakanyā, one whose gaze kills all who look at her with desire. She was shut away in Kāñcanīpura among the serpents, far from her husband.

She said: “I do not know by what tapas your gaze has fallen on me. But the moment your eyes touched mine, my śāpa was gone. The amṛta of your gaze has ended my poison. Now I will rise to my husband’s world.”

Her moksha and departure

While she was still speaking, the change was complete. The poison left her. A shining divine vimāna came down from the sky. She boarded it and rose, free of the śāpa, toward the loka of her husband Citragīva in svarga (heaven). Kāñcanīpura was freed from its long emptiness.

Kalki stood in the freed city and thought about how to govern it. He made a king named Mahāmati its ruler. Mahāmati’s son was Amarsha. Amarsha’s son was the wise Sāhasra. From Sāhasra came the famous king Asi. From Asi’s line came the kings of the Bṛhannala dynasty. From this Bṛhannala dynasty Kalki chose Mannu as king of Ayodhyā.

Kingdoms given

Kalki now placed kings over the many cities and lands under his command.

Mathurā. Sūryaketu, son of Śaśidhvaja, who had fought so well against Maru, was made king of Mathurā.
Five capitals. Kalki came to Vāraṇāvata. From there he made Devāpi king over five great capitals: Devāsinī, Aviśthala, Vṛkasthala, Mākanda and Hastināpura.

Kalki then returned to Śambhala and gave out the rest of the lands.

To his brothers Kavi, Prājña and Sumantra: the regions of Śaumba, Pauṇḍra, Pulinda, Surāshṭra and Sugandha.
To his vaṃśa (his family and kin): Kīkaṭa, Madhya-Karṇāṭa, Āndhra, Oḍra, Aṅga and Vaṅga.
To Viśākhayūpa: the regions of Kañjaka and Kalāpaka.
To Kṛtavarma and other sons: the parts of the Dvārakā region called Cōla, Barbara and Karbapraa.

With this the earth was set in order again. Dharma once more stood on all four feet, and Kṛta Yuga was fully established.

The earth turned dark green with crops (sasyaśyāmala).
The rains came in their season.
Disease and deceit were gone.
Brāhmaṇas became Veda-vettās (knowers of the Veda).
Women became pativratā (devoted to their husbands).
Kshatriyas performed yajñas.
Vaiśyas traded by the rule of dharma.
Śūdras served the brāhmaṇas with devotion.

Sources

Kalki Purāṇa, Tritīyāmśa, Chapter 14