Mālinī (daughter of Sucāru)
Mālinī, “she who wears a garland”
Sucāru has other meanings too: see all meanings of Sucāru.
Mālinī, also called Grāhamālinī, was born in the Yadu vaṃśa, the daughter of Sucāru. In the forest she conceived a son by King Śvetakarṇa, and when the king set out on his final journey she followed him, gave birth on the way, and left the infant to follow her husband, as Draupadī followed her husbands on the mahāprasthāna. Her son was Ajapārśva.
Her account
The Sūta tells the munis of the line of Puru. Satyakarṇa lived in the city of Vārāṇasī, valiant, a performer of yajñas and a giver of abundant dakshiṇā. His heir was the mighty Śvetakarṇa, who, being without a son, went to the forest. There Mālinī, daughter of Sucāru of the Yadu vaṃśa, conceived by him.
Śvetakarṇa then set out on the mahāprasthāna, the great final journey, that he had resolved upon earlier. Mālinī followed her beloved, and on the way she gave birth to a tender son. Leaving the infant right there, the noble Mālinī followed the king.
Her son Ajapārśva
The infant lay crying on the mountain, and the clouds in compassion gave him shade. Paippalādi and Kauśika, the two sons of Śravishṭhā, took pity on him and washed him in water. Because his flanks, as he rolled crying on the stone, had become like a goat’s, the munis named him Ajapārśva, “goat-flanked”. He was raised in the house of Remaka, whose wife took him as her own son, and the two brāhmaṇas became his ministers.
Source: Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13
Sources
- Brahma Purāṇa, Chapter 13