Bilvavana

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One of the five forests east of the Yamunā, and the same forest the Padma Purāṇa calls Śrīvana. The two names express different aspects: bilva, the trees that grow there, and śrī, Lakṣmī-devī, whom later Vraja tradition remembers performing austerities in this region.

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