aśmapṛṣṭha
Böhtlingk and Roth Grosses Petersburger Wörterbuch
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vol. 5,
p. 1071.
aśmapṛṣṭha (2.
aśman + pṛṣṭha) N. pr. eines heiligen
Steines in Gayā (=
pretaśilā Schol.)
MBH. 13, 1728.
Böhtlingk Sanskrit-Wörterbuch in kürzerer Fassung
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vol. 1,
p. 137, col. 3.
aśmapṛṣṭha N.pr. eines heiligen
Steines in Gayā.
Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata
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p. 5, col. 1.
Aśmapṛṣṭha, a holy stone in Gayā (Nīl.
“Pretaśilā,” the stone of the dead), a visit to which expiates the murder
of a brahman: XIII, 25s, 1728 (Aṅgirasas tīrthayātrāyām,
v. Ānuśāsanik.). “Pret Silā exists at the present day. It
is not a stone, but a rocky hill some 300 or 400 feet high.”
(Grierson.)