Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c5.565.5

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Pleased with her the Maharṣi blessed her saying "May you get a good son." The girl replied that she was still unmarried. Gālava then made a figure of a male with darbha and told her to get a child from that figure. She was a Vaiśya girl named Vīrabhadrā and she got a beautiful child of that darbha male. Because the boy was born to a Vaiśya of a brahmin male he belonged to the Ambaṣṭha caste. The boy was named Amṛtācārya. DHANYAMĀLĀ. The foster-mother of Atikāya. (See Atikāya). DHARĀ. Wife of a Vasu named Droṇa (see under Nandagopa). DHARA I. He is the first Vasu born to Dharma of his wife Dhūmrā. (Śloka 19, Chapter 66, Ādi Parva). DHARA II. A king who was a friend of Yudhiṣṭhira. (Śloka 39, Chapter 158, Droṇa Parva, M.B.). DHĀRA. A holy place. If one bathes in this holy place (Bath) his sorrows will be at an end. (M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 84, Stanza 25). DHĀRAṆA. One of the eight means of Rājayoga (One of the ways of union with the supreme Spirit). Yama, Niyama, Āsana, Prāṇāyāma, Pratyāhāra, Dhāraṇā, Dhyāna and Samādhi are the eight means (See under Rājayoga). DHĀRAṆA I. A king born in the family of Candravatsa. (M.B. Udyoga Parva, Chapter 7, Stanza 16). DHĀRAṆA II. A nāga (serpent) of the family of Kaśyapa. (M.B. Udyoga Parva, Chapter 103, Stanza 16).