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अश्वनदी (azvanadI)

 
Capeller Eng
English
अश्वनदी
f.
N.
of a river.
Monier Williams Cologne
English
अश्व—नदी
f.
N.
of a river,
MBh.
iii, 17132.
Mahabharata
English
Aśvanadī, a river (tributary to Carmaṇvatī and through it to Yamunā) upon which Pṛthā set the new-born Karṇa in a chest. § 547 (Karṇa): III, 308, 17132, 17134, 17147, 17150.
पुराणम्
English
अश्वनदी / AŚVANADĪ. A river in the country of kuntibhoja. aśvanadī joins carmaṇvatī and the latter joins the yamunā and the yamunā joining gaṅgā falls into the ocean. It was through this river that Kuntīdevī floated in a box the infant karṇa. At night accompanied by her maid, kunti floated the box containing her illegitimate son and stood on the banks of aśvanadī weeping bitterly. Then thinking that her father would notice her absence from the palace she returned home soon. The box floated and reached the country, Campāpurī, ruled by a charioteer. (Ślokas 22 to 26, Chapter 308, araṇya parva, M.B.).