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vipāśā

vi-pāśā f. the Vipāśā or Beas river (one of the 5 rivers of the Panjāb, said to be so called as having destroyed the cord with which Vasiṣṭha had tried to hang himself through grief for his son slain by Viśvāmitra; it rises in the Kullu range of the Himālaya, and after a course of 290 miles joins the Sutlej at the southern boundary of Kapurthala; it is considered identical with the Ὕϕασις of Arrian, the Hyphasis of Pliny, and Βίπασις of Ptolemy), [MBh.]; [Hariv.]; [Var.]; [Pur.]