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Purana Encyclopedia

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

Asvaśiras  : nt.: Name of a tīrtha.


A. Description: Holy (puṇya) 7. 57. 28.


B. Epic events connected with this tīrtha:

(1) The sage Bṛhadaśva taught akṣahṛdaya (the secret science of the game of dice), which he knew thoroughly well (3. 78. 15), to Yudhiṣṭhira (to dispel the latter's fear of losing everything once again in the game of dice), and then went to Aśvaśiras to bathe (dattvā cāśvaśiro 'gacchad upaspraṣṭuṁ mahātapāḥ) 3. 78. 17 (Nī., however, on Bom. Ed. 3. 79. 21: aśvaśiro 'svavidyām yayā bṛhadaśva iti muner nāma/upaspraṣṭuṁ snānādikaṁ kartum) (this Aśvaśiras apparently was in the vicinity of the Kāmyaka forest where Bṛhadaśva met the Pāṇḍavas 3. 49. 2, 29);

(2) Arjuna, on his way to the mountain Himavant to receive the Pāśupata astra from Śiva crossed many places near the Himavant, one of them being Aśvaśiras 7. 57. 28 (this Aśvaśiras seems to be different from the one referred to in the above event).


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*2nd word in left half of page p291_mci (+offset) in original book.

Mahabharata Cultural Index

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

Asvaśiras  : nt.: Name of a tīrtha.


A. Description: Holy (puṇya) 7. 57. 28.


B. Epic events connected with this tīrtha:

(1) The sage Bṛhadaśva taught akṣahṛdaya (the secret science of the game of dice), which he knew thoroughly well (3. 78. 15), to Yudhiṣṭhira (to dispel the latter's fear of losing everything once again in the game of dice), and then went to Aśvaśiras to bathe (dattvā cāśvaśiro 'gacchad upaspraṣṭuṁ mahātapāḥ) 3. 78. 17 (Nī., however, on Bom. Ed. 3. 79. 21: aśvaśiro 'svavidyām yayā bṛhadaśva iti muner nāma/upaspraṣṭuṁ snānādikaṁ kartum) (this Aśvaśiras apparently was in the vicinity of the Kāmyaka forest where Bṛhadaśva met the Pāṇḍavas 3. 49. 2, 29);

(2) Arjuna, on his way to the mountain Himavant to receive the Pāśupata astra from Śiva crossed many places near the Himavant, one of them being Aśvaśiras 7. 57. 28 (this Aśvaśiras seems to be different from the one referred to in the above event).


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*2nd word in left half of page p291_mci (+offset) in original book.