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Shanti Parva 345.16

Rahular Itihasa / M. N. Dutt · Shanti Parva Chapter 345 · Verse 16

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Sanskrit Original

दंष्ट्राभ्यां प्रविनिर्धूता ममैते दक्षिणां दिशम्। आश्रिता धरणी पिण्डास्तस्मात् पितर एव ते॥

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While thus doing, he beheld that the three balls of mud, shaken off his tusk, had fallen towards the South. He then said to himself,—These balls, shaken off my tusk, have fallen on the Earth towards the south of her surface! Led by this, I declare that these should be known henceforth by the name of departed manes.