[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975) › c7.210.6 # Puranic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Puranic Literature c7.210.6 Purāṇic Encyclopaedia: A Comprehensive Dictionary with Special Reference to the Epic and Purāṇic Literature c7.210.6 - **Language:** English ### [c7.210.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.210.6) (vii) It was the war between the Pāṇḍavas and Kauravas broke out Gautama went to the Kurukṣetra battlefield and advised Droṇa to stop the battle. (Śloka 36, Chapter 190, Droṇa Parva). (viii) Gautama was also one of the many sages who visited Bhīṣma while he was lying on his bed of arrows. (ix) Once Gautama built a hermitage on the top of the mountain Pāriyātra and did penance there for sixtythousand years. Kāla, the God of time, then appeared before him and Gautama received him well and sent him away. (Śloka 10, Chapter 47, Śānti Parva). x) Once Gautama turned the moustache of Indra green by a curse for showing disrespect to him. (Śloka 23, Chapter 352, Śānti Parva). (xi) When Gautama was born, there was such brilliance that the surrounding darkness was removed and so the boy was named Gautama (Gau=light rays, Tamas=darkness) to mean the remover of darkness. (Śloka 94, Chapter 93, Anuśāsana Parva). (xii) Gautama instructed the King Vṛṣadarbhi on the evil of accepting rewards for good deeds. (Śloka 42, Chapter 93, Anuśāsana Parva). (xiii) Gautama was also one among the ṛṣis who swore that they were not involved in the theft of the lotuses of the sage Agastya. (Śloka 19, Chapter 94, Anuśāsana Parva, M.B.). - [Previous: c7.210.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.210.5) - [Next: c7.211](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.211) - [Up: c7.210](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.210) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.210.6](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.mani-1975.c7.210.6) · Pramāṇa