समन्तपञ्चक

{ samantapañcaka }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

SAMANTAPAÑCAKA   A holy tīrtha (bath) founded by Paraśurāma.
1) General information.
See under Paraśurāma, Para 7.
2) Other details.
(i) Paraśurāma made here five rivers through which blood flowed. There, with hands dipped in blood, he offered oblations to the manes. [M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 2, Verse 4] .
(ii) By the blessings of the ancestors of Paraśurāma this place became a holy bath. [M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 2, Verse 8] .
(iii) At the ending and the beginning periods of the two yugas Dvāpara and Kali, the Kauravas and the Pāṇḍavas fought the great battle at this place. Because of that this place got the name Samantapañcaka. [M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 2, Verse 13] .
(iv) It was according to the advice of Balabhadrarāma that this place was selected as the battlefield. [Śalya Parva, Chapter 55, Verse 5] .
(v) Duryodhana was killed at Samantapañcaka. [Śalya Parva, Chapter 89, Verse 40] .

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

सम्-अन्त—पञ्चक  n.  n. N. of the district कुरु-क्षेत्र or of a तीर्थ in it (where परशु-राम is said to have destroyed the क्षत्रियs), [MBh.]; [Pur.]

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सम् अन्त पञ्चक

Shabda-Sagara

समन्तपञ्चक  n.  ( -कं) Name of a holy place near Kurukshetra.