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-one of the nine forms of Goddess Durgå. 20.10.
9 तक्षिक
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-Tak sa ka, the chief of one of the twentysix
serpent-clans. When eighteen serpent-clans were burnt to ashes in the serpent-sacrifice of king Ja na meja y a, the great-grand-son of Arjuna, the hero of the great Mahābhārata war, T a kșa ka was saved by the sage called Āstika. 22.8. -Tārā ma tī, the queen of king Hariscandra of the Solar race whose truthfulness was put to a severe test by the sage Viśvā mitra. This royal couple, along with their little prince Rohita, had to be sold off and suffer a lot for the sake of keeping a word. Tārāmati is regarded as one of the five chastest women. 7.1. - the physician of the gods, who came out of the
ocean with a cup of nectar in his hands at the close of the great churning of the ocean by the gods and the demons. The progenerator of the Indian
Science of Medicine. 22.9. --the grand-son of Arjuna, the Pāņd a va hero,
and son of Abhimā nyu and Uttarā. He ascended the throne of Hastināpura, after Yudhisthira at the age of 36 years. The Kali Age is said to have commenced with his reign. Though a pious king, he once placed a dead serpent on the neck of the sage Sa mīk a who, being engrossed in meditation, did not notice the king's arrival at his hermitage. As a consequence of the curse of Sa mika's son Śțngi, Parīkşit died of the bite of the serpent-chief Tak şaka when he was 96 years
old. 22.8. - the twenty-third Tirthank ar a of the J aina s.
References in the present text are to the idols of and temples consecrated in honour of Pārsvanātha4.16; 22.4, 5, 7, 9-10, 11. -Sarasvati, the goddess of learning. 30.14, 17.
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