Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.205

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c5.205

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DARBHI. An ancient hermit. This hermit built a tīrtha (bath) named Ardhakila in Kurukṣetra. It is believed that anybody who bathed in this place and fasted could learn the mantras (spells and incantations) and become a Brāhmaṇa. It occurs in the Purāṇas that the hermit Darbhi has brought the four oceans to this bath. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 83, Stanza 54).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit