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सवर्णा

   { savarṇā }
Script: Devanagari

सवर्णा     

Puranic Encyclopaedia  | English  English
SAVARṆĀ   wife of the muni called Prācīnabarhis. Savarṇā was the daughter of Samudra (ocean). [Viṣṇu Purāṇa, Part 1, Chapter 14] . The couple had ten sons called the Pracetases, and they were very efficient in Dhanurveda. all of them engaged themselves in obserying the same dharma (duty) and did tapas for 10,000 years under the sea. (For details see under Prācīnabarhis).

सवर्णा     

A Sanskrit English Dictionary | Sanskrit  English
स—वर्णा  f. f. a woman of the same caste, [Gaut.]
ROOTS:
past.
सरंयू   N. of the woman substituted by सरण्यू for herself as a wife of the sun (she is said to have given birth to मनु, and is called in later legends छाया; cf.), [L.]
of a daughter of the ocean and wife of प्राचीन-बर्हिस्, [Hariv.] ; [VP.]

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