Alaka

Alaka

Alaka was a king over the earth for sixty thousand and sixty hundred years.

Alaka was a king over the earth for sixty thousand and sixty hundred years. His prolonged existence was enjoyed through the favour of Lopamudra. He lived till the period at which the curse on Kasi terminated. Alaka killed the Rakshasas Kshemaka by whom the city had been occupied after it was abandoned by Divodasu. He then made the city good enough to be re-inhabited.

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