Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.314

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.314

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c8.314

MĀLINĪ I. A river which flowed by the side of the āśrama of Kaṇva Muni. The river Cukka which flows through the district of Saharanpur today was the Mālinī of old. Some believe that Mālinī starts from the Himālayas. Śakuntalā was born on the shores of this river. (Śloka 10, Chapter 72, Ādi Parva).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit