महागङ्गा (mahAgaGgA)

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Spoken Sanskrit

English

 
   महागङ्गा  mahAgaGgA  f.
   great gaGgA

Monier Williams Cologne

English

 महा—गङ्गा f.
  ‘the great Gaṅgā’,  N.
  of a river,  MBh.
  

Wordnet

Sanskrit

Synonyms:
  महागङ्गा,  महागङ्गानदी
noun
 
पौराणिकी नदी।
 "महागङ्गायाः वर्णनं महाभारते अस्ति।"

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Mahabharata

English

Mahāgaṅgā,  name of a tīrtha. § 733j (Ānuśāsanik.): By fasting and bathing in M. at the conjunction of the Kṛttikās and Aṅgāraka (so BR.,  PCR. takes Kṛttikāṅgārake as the name of a tīrtha) one becomes cleansed of his sins and ascends to heaven: XIII,  25,  1708.

पुराणम्

English

महागंगा / MAHĀGAṄGĀ. A holy place. mahābhārata,  Anuśāsana Parva,  Chapter 25,  Verse 22 says that abstaining from food for a fortnight after a bath in this place will secure admission to Svargaloka.

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