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Source: archive.org: Puranic Encyclopedia

Gadāvasāna (गदावसान).—A particular centre in Madhurāpurī. The name owes its origin to the following reason. When Kṛṣṇa killed Kaṃsa, his father-in-law Jarāsandha got so angry that he hurled his gadā (club) ninetynine times at Madhurāpurī from his capital, Girivraja. The spot where the gadā finally fell came to be called Gadāvasāna in course of time. (Mahābhārata Sabhā Parva, Chapter 18, Verses 22-25).

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The Purana (पुराण, purāṇas) refers to Sanskrit literature preserving ancient India’s vast cultural history, including historical legends, religious ceremonies, various arts and sciences. The eighteen mahapuranas total over 400,000 shlokas (metrical couplets) and date to at least several centuries BCE.

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Source: Cologne Digital Sanskrit Dictionaries: Monier-Williams Sanskrit-English Dictionary

Gadāvasāna (गदावसान):—[from gadā > gad] (dāv) n. ‘resting-place of the mace (thrown by Jarāsandhas)’, Name of a place near Mathurā, [Mahābhārata ii, 764.]

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Sanskrit, also spelled संस्कृतम् (saṃskṛtam), is an ancient language of India commonly seen as the grandmother of the Indo-European language family (even English!). Closely allied with Prakrit and Pali, Sanskrit is more exhaustive in both grammar and terms and has the most extensive collection of literature in the world, greatly surpassing its sister-languages Greek and Latin.

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