Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.2842

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ŚŪRPĀRAKA. Another name for Kerala. In Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, Chapter 99, we read that Paraśurāma threw a "Śūrpa" winnowing basket from Gokarṇa southwards and the ocean up to the spot where the Śūrpa fell, became dry land. Since the land was formed by throwing the Śūrpa, it came to be called "Śūrpāraka". References to Śūrpāraka in the Mahābhārata, are given below:-