Pampá

Pampá appears in a report of violence against hermits. The poem names it alongside Mandákiní, saying that the blood of slain holy men has stained the banks of both waters. This places Pampá within a landscape where sacred life is exposed to attack, though the passage offers no fuller description of the place itself.

Setting and Association

The same account identifies hermits living on Chitrakúṭa’s hill and links their suffering to the banks of Mandákiní and Pampá. The paired place names connect the hermits’ dwelling and the waters in the report, without specifying the precise distance or route between them.

Violence in the Landscape

Pampá’s significance here comes from the mark left by the killing of holy men. The riverside is not presented only as a natural feature: it becomes part of the evidence of harm endured by the hermits. By naming Pampá beside Mandákiní, the poem gives that violence a setting extending across more than one waterway.

Narrative Significance

The reference is brief and does not establish a detailed geography or a separate episode at Pampá. Its force lies in how the place enters a report of persecution: Pampá belongs to a sacred landscape whose waters bear witness to the danger facing the hermits.