History of Dharmashastra (Ancient and Mediaeval Religious and Civil Law in India) v5.c75.773

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Prayāga, see 'suicide at P', 'tīrtha,' śrāddha', 596-617, Agnitīrtha, a sub-tīrtha 615, Akṣaya-vaṭa is the most famous sub-tīrtha at P death at the foot of which or suicide from which was believed to lead to highest worlds 614, at the very sight of P or by taking its name or by applying its clay to the body a man becomes free from sins 597, bath in month of Māgha at P highly praised 617, Bhogavatī, vedī of Prajāpati, sub-tīrtha of P 614, boundaries of P. 599, confluence of three rivers at P. came to be associated with om and with Pradyumna, Saṅkarṣaṇa, Hari 601, Daśāśvamedhaka, a sub-tīrtha of P. 614, derivation of the word Prayāga in various ways 598, distinction between Prayāga-maṇḍala, Prayāga and Veṇī or Triveṇī, each subsequent one being smaller in extent but holier than each preceding one 598-599, gift of kapilā cow and the marriage of a daughter in ārṣa form at P. highly eulogised 600, gifts made according to one's ability at P, in Kurukṣetra, on Gaṅgā, at Puṣkara, Setubandha, Gaṅgādvāra, Naimiṣa produce inexhaustible results 600-601, greatest holiness in, 586, greatness of the confluence of Gaṅgā and Yamunā occurs in a *khila* verse 596-597, greatness of, described in the Mahābhārata and some Purāṇas 597, is called Tīrtharāja in some Purāṇas 597; is said to be the middle vedī for Brahmā and is called Prajāpatikṣetra 597, is known as Triveṇī; is not destroyed at the end of a *kalpa* and Brahmā, Viṣṇu (as Veṇīmādhava) and Rudra as the sacred Vaṭa stay there at the end of kalpa 600, Kalpataru quotes on P only Vanaparva and Matsya and no other Purāṇa 601; mantra to be recited when women offer their cut hair at P 603, meaning of the statement 'those who die at P are not born again' discussed 611-614, officers were appointed in Kashmir for supervising suicide by fast 605, one dying at P becomes immortal 547; one dying on the way to P. reaps great benefit even without reaching it 615, practice of suicide at P has great antiquity 612, procedure prescribed by Tristhalīsetu for a man committing religious suicide at P. 610,611, Pratiṣṭhāna or Sāmudrakūpa, a sub-tīrtha of P. 614, reference to a bath at P. in the purāṇas generally means a bath at the confluence of the two rivers 599, removal of sin is the only result of tonsure at P 602, sub-tīrthas under Prayāga 614-615, śrāddha has to be performed at most famous tīrthas 616, theory of medieval writers was that at the time of death in Prayāga or Vārāṇasī the Lord Himself whispers in the ears of the dying man higher knowledge or the Tāraka mantra and that mokṣa does not result directly by dying at a tīrtha, 612-613, three rivers, Gaṅgā, Yamunā and Sarasvatī (between the other two) are believed to meet at 597, tonsure at P. discussed and great importance attached to it by digests 601-602, Urvaśīpulina, a sub-tīrtha of P. 614-615, Veṇikṣetra is within the limits of P. and is twenty bows in length 599; waters of the Ganges are white, while those of the Yamunā are dark at P. 596n, whether suicide at P. and other tīrthas would involve no sin 603-611, widows have to tonsure their head at P. but women whose husbands are living are to cut off only two finger-breadths of tresses according to most writers and all boys whose cūḍā ceremony has been performed are subjected to tonsure 602, word P. generally means the Veṇī or confluence of the rivers in all passages except where there are express words to the contrary 603n