But nothing cloud curb the salaciousness of this god, and deceived and every stratagem was good In his eyes. For example, when he cast his desire upon the wife of the sage Gautama it was by employing the hypocritical trick of false likeness that, like Zeus-Amphitryo, he attained his end.
However, it occasionally happened that in the course of his amorous escapades he came badly enough to grief. One day, for instance, he was so well and truly dismembered that the gods were obliged to rebuild him bit by bit, but there was a certain part of his person that they could not find , so that, as time was pressing, and as a last resource, they saw themselves forced to requisition the lacking member from a ram.