कल्माषी

{ kalmāṣī }

Puranic Encyclopaedia

KALMĀṢĪ   A river. it was while travelling by the side of this river, that king Drupada reached a Brāhmaṇa village where he happened to meet Upayāja. [M.B. Ādi Parva, Chapter 166] . [Mahābhārata, Sabhā Parva, Chapter 78, Verse 16] says that it was on the bank of this river that the sage Bhṛgu blessed Yudhiṣṭhira. ( modern scholars believe that Kanmāṣī. is the same as the present river Yamunā).

A Sanskrit English Dictionary

कल्माषी  f.  f. the speckled cow (of जमद्- अग्नि, granting all desires), [MBh.]; [R.]
    N. of a river (the यमुना), [MBh. i, 6360]