Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c8.815

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c8.815

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c8.815

MEGHAHĀSA. A son of Rāhu. When he heard that Mahāviṣṇu had cut off the head of his father he went to the banks of the river Gautamī and practised severe penance. As a result of that Rāhu, his father, got a place among the other planets in the sky. (Chapter 142, Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa).

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Brahmāṇḍapurāṇa — Vyāsa, Sanskrit