An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.143.5

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Pāūcajanyaḥ*), 14171 (*tad ete, i.e. Yajñāmushas, nopasarpanti yatra . . . Agniḥ sthito bhavet*), 14174 (*Rathantaraç ca Tapasaḥ putro paripathyato | Mitravindāya vai tasmai havir adhvaryavo viduḥ*), 14189 (*Āgrayaṇo nāma*), 14190 (*Niçi tv ajanayat kañyam Agni-Shomāv ubhau tathā*), 14227 (*evam Agnir bhagavatā naṣṭaḥ pūrvam Atharvaṇā | āhūtaḥ*), 14236 (*ugnayaḥ*).—§§ 495-8 (Skandotpatti): III, 223-6.—§ 499 (Skanda-Çakra-samā-gama): III, 227.—§§ 500-1 (Skandopākhyāna): III, 228-9.—§ 502 (Manushyagrahakathana): III, 230.—§§ 503-7 (Skandayuddha): III, 231.—§§ 508-9 (Kārttikeyastava): III, 232 (Agni (Adbhuta (?), III, v. 14284) having become enamoured of the wives of the seven Rṣis, at first entered their gārhapatya fire, then after a long time retired to the forest (vanam; Nil. says nothing) in order to destroy himself; Svāhā, who had loved him in vain, cohabited with him, successively assuming the guise of the wives of the Rṣis (six of the Kṛttikās or Pleiads) except Arundhatī, and going out of the forest in the guise of a bird (Garuḍī, Suparṇī, Vinatā) she threw the semen in a golden basin on the Çveta mountain; this took place on the Amāvasyā day; on the fourth day Skanda was fully developed. The six wives of the Rṣis were divorced by their husbands. Skanda is called the son of Rudra, because Agni is called Rudra by brahmans, and because he was produced by Rudra entering Fire (and Umā coalescing with Svāhā), etc., and the Çveta mountain was formed of Rudra's semen virile.