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Word: saradvat (lookup in dictionary) (lookup stats)
Dates: during 1920-1929
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Indra, sensing a challenge to his power in the superhuman purity of Saradvat, an holy man, sent a celestial nymph to tempt him. The celibate, seated in austere nakedness upon the ground, "fixed his eyes upon himself" and resisted temptation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5,000th Birthday | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

...length, though Saradvat ignored the nymph, Indra was able by a miracle to effect his undoing. "A slight convulsion shook the form of Saradvat," and "from himself sprang twin children, a boy and a girl, Drona and Kirpa...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 5,000th Birthday | 1/31/1927 | See Source »

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