Śāṇḍilya, Husband of Yogalakshmī

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Śāṇḍilya Maharshi is the husband of Yogalakshmī. Bhagavān Śrī Kṛshṇa tells Yudhishṭhira of her, in the Uttara Parva of the Bhavishya Purāṇa, in the account of the Kṛttikā vrata.

Yogalakshmī had been Queen Kaliṅgabhadrā, who kept the Kṛttikā vrata. She kept it again in her next birth, by the teaching of Atri Ṛshi gained yoga-jñāna, and gave up her life by the strength of yoga. She was then born from the womb of Ahalyā, wife of Gautama Ṛshi, with the name Yogalakshmī. Gautama Muni gave Yogalakshmī in marriage to Maharshi Śāṇḍilya Muni. In Śāṇḍilya’s house she shone like Sarasvatī, Svāhā, Śacī, Arundhatī, Gaurī, Rājī, Gāyatrī, Mahālakshmī and Mahāsatī.

Source: Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 103

Sources

• Bhavishya Purāṇa, Uttara Parva, Chapter 103