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[[File:Pandu Shoots the Ascetic Kindama.jpg|thumb|right|King [[Pandu]] shoots Kindama]]
In the [[Hindu]] epic ''[[Mahabharata]]'', '''Kindama''' ({{lang-sa|किन्दम}}) was a [[rishi]] who lived in the woods. Kindama was a very bashful person and his overriding feelings of modesty prevented him from having sex in the company of other humans. To satisfy his sexual desires, Kindama used his powers to turn himself and his wife into a deer. Once he and his [[mate]] were having [[Sexual intercourse|intercourse]] in the woods. King [[Pandu]] of [[Hastinapur]], who had been hunting there, shot them mistaking them for deer, seriously injuring them. Enraged Kindama (still in deer form) berated the king for having killed him before he had finished the act of copulation. Before dying, Kindama cursed Pandu that he would die the moment he engaged in intercourse with any woman.<ref>{{cite book|last=Uberoi|first=Meera|title=The Mahabharata|isbn=9788170702313}}</ref><ref>{{cite book|last=Pattanaik|first=Devdutt|title=The goddess in India: the five faces of the eternal feminine|year=2000|publisher=Inner Traditions International|location=Rochester, Vt|isbn=9780892818075}}</ref>

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{{Rishis of Hindu mythology}}

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