Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c4.1041

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AŚVANADĪ. A river in the country of Kuntibhoja. Aśvanadī joins Carmaṇvatī and the latter joins the Yamunā and the Yamunā joining Gaṅgā falls into the ocean. It was through this river that Kuntidevī floated in a box the infant Karṇa. At night accompanied by her maid, Kunti floated the box containing her illegitimate son and stood on the banks of Aśvanadī weeping bitterly. Then thinking that her father would notice her absence from the palace she returned home soon. The box floated and reached the country, Campāpurī, ruled by a charioteer. (Ślokas 22 to 26, Chapter 308, Araṇya Parva, M.B.).