Papankusha Ekadashi: The Hunter Named Anger

Got something to say to this podcast? Send a voicemail, and you might hear yourself on the next episode! Dharma Katha · Season 4: The Road to Diwali · Episode 122 His name was Krodhana. It means the angry one. He lived in the Vindhya mountains, the long range of hills that crosses the middle of India, and he lived by catching birds. Nets, snares, a sharp stick. The vrat-katha books, which are not gentle with him, say that was the least of it. He robbed travellers. He drank. He kept bad company. He hurt people for no reason at all. All his life, he took. He never once gave. And one day, when he was old, the messengers of death came to him. Missed the previous story? Listen to Episode 120 first. Source note. Label: tradition. The story of the hunter Krodhana of the Vindhya mountains, who learned from the sage Angira to keep Papankusha Ekadashi and was freed, is told in the Ekadashi vrat-katha tradition, in Krishna's telling to Yudhishthira. Printed booklets attribute it to the Brahma Vaivarta Purana; versions differ in their details, and I have not verified it against a critical Puranic edition. The 2026 date, October 22, is from published almanacs such as drikpanchang.com. The explanation of the name and the reflections are my own. Note: this episode is narrated with an AI voice and the script was written with AI assistance. Sanskrit verses are checked against published editions; corrections are welcome.