Brewer's: Bod

The divinity invoked by Indian women who desire fecundity. Children born after an invocation to Bod must be redeemed, or else serve in the temple of the goddess. (Indian mythology.)

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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