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Vinashana

Also called: Vinasana

The place of vanishing, where the river Sarasvati is lost in the sands. The Panchavimsha Brahmana starts the Sarasvati sattra there and counts forty days on horseback to Plaksha Prasravana; the Mahabharata's Balarama bathes there.

Sources: Pancavimsa-Brahmana: the Brahmana of Twenty Five Chapters, tr. W. Caland (Bibliotheca Indica, 1931); The Mahabharata, tr. K. M. Ganguli (1883-96), sections read for the Vedic layer · see Vinashana's web

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Saraswati the river
Legend · 3 tellings

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Pancavimsa-Brahmana: the Brahmana of Twenty Five Chapters, tr. W. Caland (Bibliotheca Indica, 1931) § 25.10.1-16 Primary text (translation)
The Mahabharata, tr. K. M. Ganguli (1883-96), sections read for the Vedic layer § shalya.37 Primary text (translation)