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[4] MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES
Isfarar
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-Name of a type of goblin known as Vetāla.
Having been vanquished by king Vikra māditya of Ujjayini (probably 56 B.C.) he is stated in folk tales to have served the great king often working wonders. 11.11, 12. Also vide
PC pp. 2, 3, 32; PPS p. 2 and PK pp. 80, 83. -wife of the great sage Vasiştha of the Vedic
age, who joined her husband in practising severe austerities and had a considerable share in his securing a permanent place among the Saptarşis or seven great sages. She is regarded as the highest pattern of conjugal excellence and wifely devotion.
7.1. -a serpent-chief dwelling in the city of Pātāla.
pura in the Nether-world. 15.14. - Ahal yā, the very charming wife of the sage Gautama, who won her by circumambulating thrice round a cow and thus securing the merit of three circumambulations round the earth, whereby Indra and other gods who took the trouble of going round the earth itself were defeated. Afterwards, however, she was ravished by Indra and was turned invisible by her husband's curse on that account. She was restored to her original form at the sight of Śri Rāma. [Vālmiki's Rāmāyana, I, 47.2831, 48.16: pp. 270 & 274 of Critical Edition, Baroda, 1959. ] She is regarded as one of the
five chastest women. 7.1. - the chief of the gods and the king of heaven. 11.9,
11, 14, 18. - the river Ganges, personified as the wife of king śānta nu of the Lunar race and mother of
Bhis ma Pitā ma ha. 22.7. -Gorakh anātha or Gorak şanātha, the
great saint of the Nātha sect and disciple of Matsyendranātha. 20.18.
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