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वीरा

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Script: Devanagari

वीरा

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English |   | 
VĪRĀ   The wife of the agni (fire) named Bharadvāja, the son of Śaṁyu. The agni Vīra was the son of this Vīrā. [M.B. Vana Parva, Chapter 219, Stanza 9] .
VĪRĀ II   A river of india, very famous in the Purāṇas. [Mahābhārata, Bhīṣma Parva, Chapter 9, Stanza 22] .
VĪRĀ III   The wife of king Karandhama. she was the mother of Avikṣit. once, when serpents began to do harm to all the living and non-living things in the world, Vīrā approached her grandson Marutta and advised him to conduct a serpent-sacrifice. Marutta began the sacrifice. The serpents were terrified and sought protection from the wife of Avikṣit. she being kind-hearted, made her husband intervene and stop the sacrifice. [Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, Chapter 126] .

वीरा

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वीरा

वीरा

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
वीरा  f. f. (in music) a partic.श्रुति, [Saṃgīt.]
   N. of the wife of भरद्-वाज, [L.]
   of the wife of करं-धम, [MārkP.]
वाणी   of a river, [MBh.] (B.)

वीरा

The Practical Sanskrit-English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English |   | 
वीरा [vīrā]   1 The wife of a hero.
   A wife.
   A mother, matron.
   A kind of perfume (called Murā).
   spirituous liquor.
   An aloe.
   The plantain tree.
   A woman with a husband and a son living; L. D. B.

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