Badrinath, a shrine of Vishnu, in N.W. India, 10,000 ft. high; much frequented by pilgrims for the sacred waters near it, which are believed to be potent to cleanse from all pollution.
Definition taken from The Nuttall Encyclopædia, edited by the Reverend James Wood (1907)
Badi`a-y-Lablich * Baedeker, Karl