Sāgaradeva
PersonUn roi qui aurait creusé l’océan, apparemment le même personnage que Sāgara, dont la colère le poussa à excaver la terre si profondément qu’elle finit par contenir la mer, d’où l’océan tire le nom de Sāgara.
A king who dug the ocean (DA.i.91; MA.ii.689).
The reference is evidently to Sāgara (q.v.), who, through anger, caused the earth to be excavated, and the earth came thus to have the ocean as her bosom.
From this the ocean has come to be called Sāgara. Mahābhārata xii.29.
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