Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1331

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1331

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c7.1331

JANAPAḌI A celestial maid. This celestial maid was sent by Indra to hinder the penance of the hermit Śaradvān and the moment the hermit saw this celestial beauty seminal discharge occurred to him. Kṛpa and Kṛpī were born from that semen. (M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 129).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit