बहुला

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

BAHULĀ I   A river. in [Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 9, Stanza 29] , mention is made about this river which is famous in the Purāṇas.
BAHULĀ II   An attendant of Subrahmaṇya. [M.B., Śalya Parva, Chapter 46, Stanza 3] .
BAHULĀ III    wife of Vidura a brahmin, who frequented the houses of harlots. Bahulā was in the habit of going to the temple of Gokarṇa and hear Purāṇas, after the death of her husband. By this good deed Vidura got deliverance from sin. [Skanda Purāṇa 3.3.22] .

प्राचीन चरित्रकोश

बहुला n.   विदुर नामक वेश्यागामी ब्राह्मण की पत्नी । अपने पति की मृत्यु के पश्चात् इसने गोकर्ण क्षेत्र में पुराणश्रवण का पुण्यकर्म किया, जिसके कारण पापी विदुर मुक्त हुआ [स्कंद.३.३.२२०] ।

नेपाली (Nepali) WN

    see : बौलाहा

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

बहुला  f.  f. a cow, [L.]
   cardamoms, [Bhpr.]
   the indigo plant, [L.]
    N. of the twelfth कला of the moon, [Cat.]
   of a goddess, [Pur.]
   of one of the मातृs attending on स्कन्द, [MBh.]
   of the wife of उत्तम who was son of उत्तान- पाद, [MārkP.]
   of the mother of a समुद्र, [HPariś.]
   of a mythical cow, [Col.]
   of a river, [MBh.]
बहुला  f.  f. pl.= कृत्तिकास्, the pleiades, [Var.]; [L.]

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

    see : हरिद्रा, हरिद्रा, गौः, पृथ्विका