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यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Purana Encyclopedia

पृष्ठभागोऽयं यन्त्रेण केनचित् काले काले मार्जयित्वा यथास्रोतः परिवर्तयिष्यते। तेन मा भूदत्र शोधनसम्भ्रमः। सज्जनैः मूलमेव शोध्यताम्।

DHARMASAKHA : A king of the Kekaya line of Kings. He had a hundred wives but no children. At last, at an old age, he got a son of Sucandrā, wife of his elder brother. But the hunderd wives of Dharmasakha were pining for having a son and so the king consulted his ministers and on their advice conducted a Putrakāmeṣṭi yajña (a sacred sacrificial ceremony for obtaining chil- dren) at Hanūmatkuṇḍa near the southern sea-coast. As a result of that each of his hundred wives got a child. (Skanda Purāṇa, Chapter 15).


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*5th word in left half of page 231 (+offset) in original book.