मत्स्योदरी

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Puranic Encyclopaedia

MATSYODARĪ   Another name for Satyavatī, mother of Vyāsa. (See under Satyavatī).

हिन्दी (hindi) WN

See : सत्यवती

A dictionary, Marathi and English

A designation applied, at Benares, to an inundation of the Ganges, reaching to the temple of भैरव.

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

मत्स्योदरी  f.  f. ‘sprung from a fish-belly’, N. of सत्य-वती, [L.] (See under मत्स्य above)
N. of a sacred bathing-place in Benares, [Cat.]

Shabda-Sagara

मत्स्योदरी  f.  ( -री)
1. A name of SATYAVATĪ, the mother of VYĀSA.
2. A place of pilgrimage, a particular pool at Benares held in re- verence by pilgrims to that sacred city.
E. मत्स्य a fish, and उदर the belly; the mother of VYĀSA was found in the belly of a fish, and retaining a fishy-odour, was thence also called MATSYAGAN- DHĀ, till the scent was changed to that of a lotus by her para- mour the Muni PARĀSARA, the father of VYĀSA.

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मत्स्य उदर

संस्कृतम् (Sanskrit) WN

See : सत्यवती