85, 8376.
A. Location: On the river Yamunā
3. 88. 2, 6. B. Description: holy (puṇya),
heavenly (divya), auspicīous (śiva) 3. 88. 4.
C. Past events: (1) Sahadeva offered
there sacrifices by measuring the sacrificial
ground with the throw of a peg; with regard
to this a gāthā, sung by Indra, was current
in this world among the twice-born; it said
that Sahadeva performed Agnicayana a hund-
red hundred-thousand times along the river
Yamunā and gave hundreds of thousands as
dakṣiṇā (sahadevo 'yajad yatra śamyākṣe-
peṇa bhārata//etasminn eva cārtheyam
indragītā yudhiṣṭhira/gāthā carati loke
'smin gīyamānā divijātibhiḥ//agnayaḥ
sahadevena ye citā yamunām anu/śatam
śatasahasrāṇi sahasraśatadakṣiṇāḥ//) 3.
88. 4-6 (Nī. on Bom. Ed. 3. 90. 5: śamyā-
kṣepeṇa balavatā kṣiptā śamyā laguḍaviśeṣo
yāvad dūraṃ patet tāvān yajñamaṇḍapo
yasmin yajñe sa śamyākṣepaḥ); (2) King
Bharata, the famous emperor, offered there
35 horse sacrifices 3. 88. 7.