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स्वर्णदी Svarnadī

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Attestations

Lexicons, Nirukta & Buddhist · c. 6th century CE
मन्दाकिनी वियद्गङ्गा स्वर्णदी सुरदीर्घिका ॥ १.१.११६ ॥
'The river of heaven.' — H.T. Colebrooke (1808)

'River of heaven'. Third synonym in the same verse. The correct segmentation is svar+nadī ('heaven-river'), not svarṇa+dī ('gold-').

Amarakośa 1.1.116 (Svarga-varga) · text · translation

See also

Mandākinī, Ākāśagaṅgā