Narmadā
place · 2 works · 4 mentions · 7 anchored passages
the Narmadā · that best of rivers
in the texts
Vālmīki Rāmāyaṇa
River marking a hazard on the southern search route.
The Vindhya with its thousand peaks, covered with diverse trees and creepers, and the river Narmadā, difficult of passage, haunted by great serpents —
"— he who inhabits the best of mountains, Ṛkṣavanta, drinking from the Narmadā:
Wishing to test the supreme strength of his thousand arms, Arjuna at that time dammed the current of the Narmadā with those arms.
Vīramitrodaya
The river used as the geographic boundary distinguishing northern and southern practice for the Leo/Cancer Upākarma timing rule.
> In the region north of the Narmadā, it should be performed when it is in Leo.