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Tales of the Gods
She could carry water in a pot that had never been fired. It held together only as long as her own chastity was unbroken.
She could carry water in a pot that had never been fired.
Renuka was the wife of the sage Jamadagni and the mother of Parashurama, and the ability came directly from her husband's blessing.
Every day she shaped a pot out of unbaked clay and carried water home from the river in it.
And it held together on one condition. It worked only as long as her own chastity was entirely unbroken.
Nothing external maintained it. No ritual. No vow renewed each morning.
Only the unbroken purity of her own mind.
The rest of this story, read aloud, and a new one every day.