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प्लक्षावतरणगमन (plakSAvataraNagamana)

 
Mahabharata
English
Plakshāvataraṇagamana(ṃ) (“going to Plakshāvataraṇa”). § 409 (Tīrthay.): Lomaśa pointed out to Yudhishṭhira the spots where sacrifices had been performed by Prajāpati (Ishṭākṛta, lasting 1, 000 years), Ambarīsha Nābhāga (b), the sārvabhauma Yayāti Nāhusha (c)
the door of Kurukshetra
the śamī-tree, which had got only a single leaf
the lakes of Paraśu-Rāma
the hermitage of Nārāyaṇa
the path of Ṛcīka's son (when he roamed over the earth, practising the yoga rites) in the river Raupyā
further, that a Piśāca woman with pestles for her ornaments had said: “Having eaten curd in Yugandhara, and lived in Acyutasthala, and bathed in Bhūtilaya, thou shouldst live with thy sons, ” etc.
the tīrtha Plakshāvataraṇa(d). “Having taken his bath on this spot one becomes able to behold all the worlds and is purified from his evil deeds.” The Pāṇḍavas having bathed, Yudhishṭhira beheld all the worlds and Arjuna (Śvetavāhana) (III, 129).--§ 410: Daksha, when engaged in a sacrifice there, had blessed the spot, saying: “Those men that die on this spot shall win a place in heaven.” Lomaśa pointed out to Yudhishṭhira the Sarasvatī, the Oghavatī, Vinaśana (b), Camasodbheda (c), the tīrtha of Sindhu (d), Prabhāsa (e), Vishṇupada, Vipāśā (f), Kāśmīramaṇḍala (g), the gate of Mānasa, a gap (? see Nīl.) opened by Rāma in the midst “of this mountain”. Vātikakhaṇḍa (B. ºshº), on the north of Videha, “yonder lake, ” where people propitiate Śiva with sattras in the month of Caitra, and become free from sins, Ujjānaka, the lake Kuśavat with a lotus in the kuśa grass, and the hermitage of Rukmiṇī, Bhṛgutuṅga, Vitastā, the holy rivers Jalā and Upajalā, where Indra and Agni tested king Uśīnara (v. Śyenakapotīya, § 411).