महाह्रद

यन्त्रोपारोपितकोशांशः

Monier-Williams

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

महाह्रद/ महा--ह्रद m. a -grgreat tank or pool Mn. R. etc.

महाह्रद/ महा--ह्रद m. N. of a तीर्थMBh.

महाह्रद/ महा--ह्रद m. of a mythical pool , Siddha7ntas3. Gol.

महाह्रद/ महा--ह्रद m. of शिवS3ivag. (See. तीर्थ-म्).

Purana Encyclopedia

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

Mahāhrada  : nt.: Name of a tīrtha (13. 151. 23).


A. Location: On the Bhṛgutuṅga mountain 13. 26. 17.


B. Description: Excellent among all tīrthas (sarvatīrthavara) 3. 82. 125.


C. Holiness:

(1) By staying at this tīrtha one does not meet with bad condition and gets much gold (yo vaseta mahāhrade/na durgatim avāpnoti vinded bahu suvarṇakam) 3. 82. 125;

(2) By bathing in the lake one has done one's duty and becomes pure (atra snātaḥ kṛtakṛtyo viśuddhaḥ) 3. 113. 25;

(3) According to the Tīrthavaṁśa proclaimed by Aṅgiras (13. 26. 3), one who is free from desire (alolupaḥ) if he bathes (upaspṛśya) in the lake and fasts for three nights he is freed from the sin of killing a Brāhmaṇa (mucyate brahmahatyayā) 13. 26. 17;

(4) According to the same authority one who has a pure mind, if he bathes (upaspṛśya) there and fasts for a month he gets the condition obtained by Jamadagni (jamadagnigatiṁ labhet) 13. 26. 45;

(5) The high-souled ones who visit the Mahāhrada become auspicious and assuming a heavenly form, wearing heavenly garlands and becoming rich in fragrance, they reach the world of the cows (? modanti gavāṁ vimāne 13. 105. 44) 13. 105. 46, 48 (for citation see Karatoyinī ).


D. Importance: Finds mention in the Daivata-Ṛṣi-Vaṁśa (tīrthaṁ mahāhradam) 13. 151. 23, 2.


E. Epic event: Lomaśa advised Yudhiṣṭhira to bathe in this lake and then proceed to other tīrthas 3. 113. 25.


F. Past event: Sage Kāśyapa practised austerities at this lake; once while he was bathing in the lake (apsūpaspṛśataḥ) he happened to see Apsaras Urvaśī; his semen spilled in water which was drunk by a female deer; Ṛṣyaśṛṅga was born at this lake from this female deer 3. 110. 12-16; the holy hermitage of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga adorned the Mahāhrada (tasyāśramaḥ puṇya eṣo vibhāti mahāhradaṁ śobhayan) 3. 113. 25.


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Mahabharata Cultural Index

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

Mahāhrada  : nt.: Name of a tīrtha (13. 151. 23).


A. Location: On the Bhṛgutuṅga mountain 13. 26. 17.


B. Description: Excellent among all tīrthas (sarvatīrthavara) 3. 82. 125.


C. Holiness:

(1) By staying at this tīrtha one does not meet with bad condition and gets much gold (yo vaseta mahāhrade/na durgatim avāpnoti vinded bahu suvarṇakam) 3. 82. 125;

(2) By bathing in the lake one has done one's duty and becomes pure (atra snātaḥ kṛtakṛtyo viśuddhaḥ) 3. 113. 25;

(3) According to the Tīrthavaṁśa proclaimed by Aṅgiras (13. 26. 3), one who is free from desire (alolupaḥ) if he bathes (upaspṛśya) in the lake and fasts for three nights he is freed from the sin of killing a Brāhmaṇa (mucyate brahmahatyayā) 13. 26. 17;

(4) According to the same authority one who has a pure mind, if he bathes (upaspṛśya) there and fasts for a month he gets the condition obtained by Jamadagni (jamadagnigatiṁ labhet) 13. 26. 45;

(5) The high-souled ones who visit the Mahāhrada become auspicious and assuming a heavenly form, wearing heavenly garlands and becoming rich in fragrance, they reach the world of the cows (? modanti gavāṁ vimāne 13. 105. 44) 13. 105. 46, 48 (for citation see Karatoyinī ).


D. Importance: Finds mention in the Daivata-Ṛṣi-Vaṁśa (tīrthaṁ mahāhradam) 13. 151. 23, 2.


E. Epic event: Lomaśa advised Yudhiṣṭhira to bathe in this lake and then proceed to other tīrthas 3. 113. 25.


F. Past event: Sage Kāśyapa practised austerities at this lake; once while he was bathing in the lake (apsūpaspṛśataḥ) he happened to see Apsaras Urvaśī; his semen spilled in water which was drunk by a female deer; Ṛṣyaśṛṅga was born at this lake from this female deer 3. 110. 12-16; the holy hermitage of Ṛṣyaśṛṅga adorned the Mahāhrada (tasyāśramaḥ puṇya eṣo vibhāti mahāhradaṁ śobhayan) 3. 113. 25.


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