History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c74.t2.336

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The Vāmanapurāṇa (34. 3 ff) and Nāradīya (uttarārdha 65. 4–7) enumerate seven forests existing in Kurukṣetra as very holy and as destroyers of all sins, viz. Kāmyaka, Aditivana, Vyāsavana, Phalakīvana, Sūryavana, Madhuvana and Sītāvana. Vide A. S. R. for India, vol. 14 pp. 90–91 for the vanas. In the Śalyaparva (chap. 38) it is said that the world is encompassed by seven Sarasvatīs, then they are enumerated and their locations are specified viz. Suprabhā (in Puṣkara, where Brahmā engaged in a great sacrifice remembered her, verse 13), Kāñcanākṣī (in the Naimiṣa forest, v. 19), Viśālā (invoked by Gaya in the Gayā country, verses 20–21), Manoramā (in Auddālaka's yajña in Uttarakosala, verses 22–25), Sureṇu (in Ṛṣabhadvīpa in Kuru's yajña, verses 26–27), Oghavatī (called by Vasiṣṭha in Kurukṣetra, verses 27–28), Vimalodā (when Brahmā again performed a yajña in the Himālaya). In the Vāmanapurāṇa 34. 6–8 seven rivers in connection with Sarasvatī are said to be very holy (but nine are actually enumerated) viz. Sarasvatī, Vaitaraṇī, Āpagā, Gaṅgā-Mandākinī, Madhusravā, Ambunadī, Kauśikī, Dṛṣadvatī and Hiraṇvatī.