A righteous वैश्य . Having been childless for a long time this वैश्य , who was an ardent devotee of God कपिलेश्वर , got a son in his old age. But he died after his marriage. With this calamity नन्दभद्र became a man of abstinence and began to try to acquire spiritual knowledge. After a while a seven-year-old boy appeared before the वैश्य and quenched his thirst for spiritual knowledge. Later with meditation on शिव and the Sun, नन्दभद्र attained heaven. (Skanda Purāṇa, Chapters 1, 2 and 46) .