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परशुवन (parazuvana)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
English
परशु—वन
n.
‘forest of axes’,
N.
of a hell,
MBh.
Shabdartha Kaustubha
Kannada
परशुवन
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Mahabharata
English
Paraśuvana, name of a hell(?). § 710 (Mokshadh.): XII, 322, †12075 (ºśayo nipātitaḥ).
पुराणम्
English
परशुवन / PARAŚUVANA. A forest in hell. The sinners after climbing out of vaitaraṇī, a river in hell in which hot blood flows, reach asipatravana. There the bodies of the sinners are cut by the leaves of asipatra which are as sharp as a sword's edge. Leaving that they reach paraśuvana. (Sloka 32, Chapter 322, śānti Parva).
वाचस्पत्यम्
Sanskrit
परशुवन
न०
परशुवत्पत्रयुक्तं वनम् शा० त० नरकभेदेभा० व० अ०