ahalya

Dictionary meanings for ahalya from Apte and Monier-Williams.

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ahalya

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Apte Sanskrit-English Dictionary

a. 1 Unploughed.

2 Not arable. lyaḥ N. of a country. lyā N. of the wife of Gautama. [According to the Rāmāyaṇa she was the first woman created by Brahmā, who gave her to Gautama. She was seduced by Indra who assumed the form of her husband and so deceived her, or, accord- ing to another version, she knew the god and was flattered by the great God's condescension. There is another story which states that Indra...

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