An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s2.12

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Badarāpācana (a tīrtha on the Sarasvatī). § 615 (Baladevat.): IX, 47, 2760.—§ 615y: IX, 48, 2762, 2793, 2812: *There the beautiful Çrutāvatī, Bharadvāja's daughter, a brahmacāriṇī, practised austerities for many years, desirous of obtaining Indra for her husband. Indra then came in the guise of B.-y. Vasiṣṭha, and told her that everything is attainable by penances, and asked her to boil five jujubes, when he went away to mentally recite certain mantras at Indratīrtha, that was not far away. She sat down to boil the jujubes, but in vain; the day was about to wane; her fuel was all consumed; then she first thrust her feet into the fire, without changing a muscle of her face. Indra then showed himself in his own proper form, and said that her wish would be accomplished; throwing off her body, she would live with him in heaven as his spouse; and this tīrtha would be the foremost in the world and be called B.; he granted her a boon superior to that granted to Arundhatī (s) by Mahādeva: the person who will reside in this tīrtha for only one night and bathe there with his soul fixed on meditation, will, after having thrown off his body, obtain many regions of blessedness difficult of acquisition. Then Indra went back to heaven; a shower of celestial flowers poured down, etc., and Çrutāvatī, throwing off her body, became the spouse of Indra.—Cf. Badarīpācana.*