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The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.51

The Geographical Dictionary of Ancient and Mediaeval India c5.s2.51

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c5.s2.51

Baraha-kshetra—1. Barāmūla in Kāśmīra on the right bank of the Jhelum, where Vishnu is said to have incarnated as Varāha (boar). There is a temple of Ādi-Varāha (See Sukara-kshetra). 2. Another place of the same name exists at Nāthpur on the Kusī in the district of Purnea below the Triveni. See Manā-Kausika (JASB, XVII, 638). It is the Kokāmukha of the Varāha Purāṇa sacred to Varāha, one of the incarnations of Vishnu (Varāha P., ch 140). See Kokamukha.

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