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वदवा (vadavA)

 
Mahabharata
English
Vadavā^2, name of a tirtha. § 359 (Tīrthayātrāp.): In V. one should in the evening offer caru (rice boiled in milk and butter) to the Fire
this is equal to hundred thousands of kine, hundred rājasūyas, and a thousand horse-sacrifices
here a gift to the Pitṛs becomes inexhaustible. Here the ṛshis, the Pitṛs, the gods, the Gandharvas, the Apsarases, the Guhyakas, the Kinnaras, the Yakshas, the Siddhas, the Vidyādharas, men, the Rākshasas, the Daityas, the Rudras, and Brahmán himself practised austerities for 1, 000 years in order to gratify Vishṇu, then they cooked caru and praised Keśava each with seven ṛces. Keśava conferred eightfold aiśvarya (superhuman power), etc., on them, and then disappeared, therefore that tīrtha became known by the name of Saptacaru: III, 82, 5034.