Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c9.4025

Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c9.4025

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c9.4025

VASUMĀN (VASUMANAS) III. A fire. It is stated in Mahābhārata, Vana Parva, Chapter 221, Stanza 27, that if a woman during her monthly course happens to touch the holy fire, an aṣṭakapāla should be offered to the fire Vasumān. This fire called Vasumān now stays in the palace of Brahmā. (M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 11, Stanza 30).

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Mahābhārata — Vyāsa, Sanskrit