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'Asha'b'ha « 

 ©it Sr&vana* 



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IV. 



V. Manasapanchami. &* 



VI. Dagdhd. 

 VII. 



VIII. Manwantar£ 



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XI. 



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XV. 



a. In honour of Dew, the goddefs of nature, furnamed Manafd, who, 

 while Vishnu and all the Gods were fleeping, fat in the fhape of a ferpent 

 on a branch of Snuhi, to preferve mankind from the venom of fnakes. 



Garuda. Devipurdna. 



