अशोकवनिका

{ aśokavanikā }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

AŚOKAVANIKĀ   A famous park in Laṅkā. It was in this park that Rāvaṇa kept Sītā having stolen her from Śrī Rāma. It is described in [Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa, Sundarakāṇḍa, Sarga 14] and [Araṇyakāṇḍa, Sarga 56] and in [Mahābhārata] also:-- “Thinking of her husband alone, clad in the garments of a hermit woman, eating only roots and fruits, in prayer and fast, in sorrow and sadness, she of the wide eyes lived in the Aśoka park which seemed as a hermitage.” [Bhāṣā Bhārata, Araṇya Parva Chapter 280, Stanzas 42 and 43] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

अ-शोक—वनिका  f.  f. a grove of अशोक trees, [R.]

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अ शोक वनिका