Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.1346

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.1346

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c7.1346

JAPAKA. A Brāhmaṇa who was constantly engaged in uttering Gāyatrī. Jāpaka was ordered to go to hell because certain mistakes were detected in the uttering of Gāyatrī. But Devī Sāvitrī intervened. She appeared before him and gave him heaven. This Jāpaka was a contemporary of Ikṣvāku. (M.B. Śānti Parva, 3 Chapters from 197).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit