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Purana Encyclopedia

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

Agastyatīrtha : nt.: Name of a tīrtha (different from Agastyasaras ).


A. Location: One of the tīrthas on the southern ocean (samudre tīrthāni dakṣiṇe) 1. 208. 3; on the ocean in the Draviḍa country (draviḍeṣu rājan samudram āsādya… agastyatīrtham…dadarśa) 3. 118. 4; in the counry of the Pāṇḍyas (agastyatīrthaṁ pāṇḍyeṣu) 3. 86. 10.


B. Description: sanctifying and holy (pavitrapuṇya) 3. 118. 4; holy for the worlds (lokapuṇya) 3. 118. 4; very holy (supuṇya) 1. 208. 1; worshipped by the ascetics (supūjitāni tapasvibhiḥ) 1. 208. 1.


C. History: It was once thronged by ascetics, but later avoided by them as the five crocodiles in the tīrtha dragged some of them away; it then became isolated (viviktāni) 1. 208. 2, 4-6.


D. Epic event:

(1) Arjuna visited the five tīrthas and freed them of the crocodiles 1. 208. 7-21; 1. 209. 1-23;

(2) Yudhiṣṭhira, with his brothers and wife, reached the tīrtha and heard there the exploits of Arjuna and was highly gratified; he bathed there with his wife and brothers and extolled the heroism of Arjuna; he gave as gift a thousand cows and praised the gift of cows given by Arjuna (this gift of Arjuna is not reported earlier in the Adhyāyas 1. 208 and 209) (arjunasya saṁkīrtayām āsa gavāṁ pradānam) 3. 118. 4-7.


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*2nd word in left half of page p285_mci (+offset) in original book.

Mahabharata Cultural Index

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

Agastyatīrtha : nt.: Name of a tīrtha (different from Agastyasaras ).


A. Location: One of the tīrthas on the southern ocean (samudre tīrthāni dakṣiṇe) 1. 208. 3; on the ocean in the Draviḍa country (draviḍeṣu rājan samudram āsādya… agastyatīrtham…dadarśa) 3. 118. 4; in the counry of the Pāṇḍyas (agastyatīrthaṁ pāṇḍyeṣu) 3. 86. 10.


B. Description: sanctifying and holy (pavitrapuṇya) 3. 118. 4; holy for the worlds (lokapuṇya) 3. 118. 4; very holy (supuṇya) 1. 208. 1; worshipped by the ascetics (supūjitāni tapasvibhiḥ) 1. 208. 1.


C. History: It was once thronged by ascetics, but later avoided by them as the five crocodiles in the tīrtha dragged some of them away; it then became isolated (viviktāni) 1. 208. 2, 4-6.


D. Epic event:

(1) Arjuna visited the five tīrthas and freed them of the crocodiles 1. 208. 7-21; 1. 209. 1-23;

(2) Yudhiṣṭhira, with his brothers and wife, reached the tīrtha and heard there the exploits of Arjuna and was highly gratified; he bathed there with his wife and brothers and extolled the heroism of Arjuna; he gave as gift a thousand cows and praised the gift of cows given by Arjuna (this gift of Arjuna is not reported earlier in the Adhyāyas 1. 208 and 209) (arjunasya saṁkīrtayām āsa gavāṁ pradānam) 3. 118. 4-7.


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*2nd word in left half of page p285_mci (+offset) in original book.