चर्मण्वती

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

CARMAṆVATĪ   A river in north India, now known as river Campā.
1) General.
King Śaśabindu, who ruled northern India in olden days once performed a yajña. The skins (carmans) of animals killed in the yajña lay there in a heap like a hill. When rain fell there flowed from the ‘skin-hill’ a river and it was called Carmaṇvatī. [Devībhāgavata, Prathama Skandha] .
2) Other details.
(1) River Carmaṇvatī serves Varuṇa in his assembly. [M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 9, Verse 21] .
(2) Once on the bank of this river Sahadeva defeated the son of Jaṁbhaka in fight. [M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 31, Verse 7] .
(3) He who bathes in this river will get the same result as from the Agniṣṭoma yajña. [M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 82, Verse 54] .
(4) Carmaṇvatī is one of the rivers responsible for the origin of Agni. [M.B. Sabhā Parva, Chapter 222, Verse 23] .

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : चंबल

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

चर्मण्-वती  f.  f. Musa sapientum, [L.]

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चर्मण् वती

( [Pāṇ. 8-2, 12]) N. of a river (flowing through Bundelkhand into the Ganges, the modern Chambal), [MBh.] (on the origin of the N. vii, 2360; xii, 1016; xiii, 3351), [BhP. v, 19.]

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary

चर्मण्वती [carmaṇvatī]  N. N. of a river flowing into the Gaṅgā, the modern Chambal.