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[सम्पाद्यताम्]Purana Encyclopedia
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 पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
Agniśiras : nt.: Name of a tīrtha.
A. Location: On the river Yamunā 3. 88. 2, 6.
B. Description: holy (puṇya), heavenly (divya), auspicīous (śiva) 3. 88. 4.
C. Past events:
(1) Sahadeva offered there sacrifices by measuring the sacrificial ground with the throw of a peg; with regard to this a gāthā, sung by Indra, was current in this world among the twice-born; it said that Sahadeva performed Agnicayana a hundred hundred-thousand times along the river Yamunā and gave hundreds of thousands as dakṣiṇā (sahadevo 'yajad yatra śamyākṣepeṇa bhārata//etasminn eva cārtheyam indragītā yudhiṣṭhira/gāthā carati loke 'smin gīyamānā divijātibhiḥ//agnayaḥ sahadevena ye citā yamunām anu/śatam śatasahasrāṇi sahasraśatadakṣiṇāḥ//) 3. 88. 4-6 (Nī. on Bom. Ed. 3. 90. 5: śamyākṣepeṇa balavatā kṣiptā śamyā laguḍaviśeṣo yāvad dūraṁ patet tāvān yajñamaṇḍapo yasmin yajñe sa śamyākṣepaḥ);
(2) King Bharata, the famous emperor, offered there 35 horse sacrifices 3. 88. 7.
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*1st word in right half of page p286_mci (+offset) in original book.
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पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्। |
Agniśiras : nt.: Name of a tīrtha.
A. Location: On the river Yamunā 3. 88. 2, 6.
B. Description: holy (puṇya), heavenly (divya), auspicīous (śiva) 3. 88. 4.
C. Past events:
(1) Sahadeva offered there sacrifices by measuring the sacrificial ground with the throw of a peg; with regard to this a gāthā, sung by Indra, was current in this world among the twice-born; it said that Sahadeva performed Agnicayana a hundred hundred-thousand times along the river Yamunā and gave hundreds of thousands as dakṣiṇā (sahadevo 'yajad yatra śamyākṣepeṇa bhārata//etasminn eva cārtheyam indragītā yudhiṣṭhira/gāthā carati loke 'smin gīyamānā divijātibhiḥ//agnayaḥ sahadevena ye citā yamunām anu/śatam śatasahasrāṇi sahasraśatadakṣiṇāḥ//) 3. 88. 4-6 (Nī. on Bom. Ed. 3. 90. 5: śamyākṣepeṇa balavatā kṣiptā śamyā laguḍaviśeṣo yāvad dūraṁ patet tāvān yajñamaṇḍapo yasmin yajñe sa śamyākṣepaḥ);
(2) King Bharata, the famous emperor, offered there 35 horse sacrifices 3. 88. 7.
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*1st word in right half of page p286_mci (+offset) in original book.