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[4] MYTHOLOGICAL NAMES
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-Name of a type of goblin known as Verala.
Having been vanquished by king Vikramā. ditya 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 ride
PC pp. 2, 2, 32: PPS p. 2 and PX 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 Saplursis or seven great sages. She is regarded as the highest pattern of conjugal excellence and wisely devotion.
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-a scrpent-chief dwelling in the city of Pagala.
pura in the Nether-world. 15.14. -- Ahalyä, the very charming wife of the sage
Gautama, who won her by circumambulating thuice 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 carth 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 Sri Rama. Valmiki's Rāmāyana, I, 47.2831, 48.16: pp. 270 & 274 of Critical Edition, Baroda, 1959.) She is regarded as onc of the
live 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 wifc of king Santanu of the Lunar race and mother of Bhisma Pitamah 4. 12.7. -Gorakhanātha or Goraksanatha, the
greal saint of the Natha sect and disciple of Matsyendranatha. 20.18,
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