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.s1.144
An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.144
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1003 (do.), 1005 (*sapta . . . agnayaḥ*, lower than Çiva); 16, 1045 (*Indrāgni-Marutām gatim*, i.e. Çiva); 18, 1304 (*sāgni-munibhir*).—§ 735 (Aṣṭāvakra-Dik-s.): 19, 1472 (*nānilo 'gnir na Varuṇo na cānye tridaçā dvija | priyāḥ strīṇām yathā Kāmo*).—§ 732 (Anuçāsanik.): 22 (the opinions of Pṛthivī, Kāçyapa, Mārkaṇḍeya, and Agni ("a brahman who, being engaged in study and regarding himself learned with the aid of his learning destroys the reputation of others, falls away from righteousness, and his regions of felicity hereafter—*lokāḥ*—are of short duration—*antavanto*") as to the essential qualities of brahmans), 1540, (1543), 1545.—§ 733 (do.): 25β, 1729 (*oḥ pure-a-naraḥ snātvā Agnikanyāpure vaset*; Nil. is silent).—§ 737 (do.): 31, 2031 (*ayonin Agni-yoninç ca brahma-yonins tathaiva ca | sarvabhūtātmayoniṃ ca tān namasyāmy aham sadā*; cf. Nil. and PCR.).—§ 746 (do.): 63, 3239 (*sambhavanti taḥ çukrāt prāṇinaḥ, pṛthivipate! | Agni-Shomau hi tac chukram srjataḥ puṣyataç ca ha*); 79k, 3769 (*samānavatsām kṛṣṇān tu dhenum dattvā . . . Agni-loke mahīyate*); 82, 3857 (*mayā*, i.e. by Çrī, '*bhipannā devāç ca modante çacvati samāḥ | Indro Vivasvān Somaç ca Viṣṇur Āpo 'gnir eva ca*).—§ 747b (Suvarṇotpatti): 84, 3977 (*Agni-Shomāmakam suvarṇam*), 3978 (*ajo 'gnir, Varuṇo meṣaḥ*, etc.; cf.
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XII, 78, 2922): Brahmán had granted the Asura Tāraka the boon that he could not be slain by gods, Asuras, Rākṣasas, etc., and the deities had, in consequence of their endeavour in former times to stop propagation, been cursed by Pārvatī, that they were not to have any offspring; but Agni had not been there; he therefore, said Brahmán, would beget an offspring for the destruction of Tāraka, etc.: "Kāma is Rudra's seed, a portion of which fell into Agni, who will cast it into Gaṅgā. Therefore, make a search for Agni. Agni is the most eternal of all creatures; he is older than Rudra himself," etc. After searching in vain every part of the universe, the gods successively learnt from a frog that had been scorched by the energy of Agni that he was residing in the nethermost regions of the water; from an elephant, that he was within an aśvattha tree; and from a parrot, that he had entered the heart of a śami tree. All frogs, elephants, and parrots were cursed by Agni and blessed by the gods in various ways: the śami tree the gods made a sacred fuel fit for producing fire in all religious rites; the heated waters that are found in the nethermost regions are vomited forth by the mountain springs. Agni then united himself in spiritual congress with Gaṅgā, who, being unable to bear the seed, cast it off resplendent like gold on the breast of Meru, on a forest of reeds. Hence Agni was called Hiraṇyaretas; Earth, Vasumati;
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the child, Skanda and Guha, and, because it was nursed by the Kṛttikās, Kārttikeya; gold, Jātarūpa. It was in this way that gold came into existence as the offspring of Agni; gold is truly the illustrious Agni, the lord of all things, and the foremost of all Prajāpatis; the most sacred of all sacred things is gold; it has for its essence Agni and Soma. In days of yore (*lokādau*, v. 4163) Rudra (who is Brahmán, Çiva, Rudra, Varuṇa, Agni, Prajāpati, etc.), having assumed the form of Varuṇa (cf. v. 4133, *Varuṇaḥ, Pavanātmakah*), performed a sacrifice to which the munis and all the deities with Agni, etc.; the Lord of all himself poured libations into his own self. Seeing "*devapatnyaç ca kanyāç ca devānāṃ ca mātaraḥ*," the seed (endowed with Sattva, Rajas, and Tamas) of Brahmán fell upon the Earth; Pūshan took it up, and it was taken with the sacrificial ladle and poured as an oblation into the fire; thence Brahmán caused the different beings to spring into existence. From the flames (bhrg) arose Bhrgu, etc. . . . from the ashes, the Vaikhānasas, honoured by the gaṇas of brahmarṣis; from his (Agni's, PCR.) tears, the Aevins; from his organs of sense (srotobhyas B., i.e. ears, etc.), the rest of the Prajāpatis (prajānām patayaḥ), the Ṛṣis from his pores, etc. - For this reason Agni is said to be all the deities; the pieces of wood are the months, etc.; his bile (pittam) is day and night (B. somewhat differently); "Raudram lohityam ity āhur, lohitāt kanakam smṛtam |
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tan Maitram iti vijñeyam, dhūmāc ca Vasavaḥ smṛtāḥ" (v. 4130); the flames are the Rudras and Ādityas; the planets, stars, etc. (Nil.), are the charcoal; "ādikartā ca lokasya tat param brahma tad dhrucam | sarvakā-madam ity āhus, tad rahasyam uvāca ha" (v. 4132). Bhrgu was considered as the offspring of Varuṇa, Aṅgiras as that of Agni, Kavi as that of Brahmān; Bhrgu, Aṅgiras, and Kavi were all of them prajānām patayaḥ; their offspring (v. 4144-52) are called Vāruṇāḥ, and Kavi and Bhrgu, Vāruṇau. Agni is Brahmān, Paçupati, Sarva, Rudra, Prajāpati; gold is the offspring of Agni (v. 4164); when fire is not obtainable gold is used as a substitute by a Jāmadagnyaḥ ("one that knows the identity of gold with fire," PCR.) Pramāṇajño vedaçrutivi-darçanāt (v. 4165), etc. (v. 4166-7); Agni sprang from Brahmān, and from Agni sprang gold (v. 4168); those persons observant of righteousness who make gifts of gold are regarded as giving away all the deities (v. 4169), etc.; he who makes a gift of gold at the second twilight succeeds in attaining to a residence with (sālokyam) Brahmān, Vāyu, Agni, and Soma (v. 4173), and in the regions of Indra (sendreshu caiva lokeshu, v. 4174), etc.; he has never to fall down from the regions to which he attains (na ca kṣarati tebhyaç ca, v. 4176). XIII, 85, 4062, etc., (4065), etc., 4095 (Hiranyaretah), etc., 4102 (Içaḥ Prajāpatiḥ), 4103 (Agni-Shomātmakam jātarūpam), 4106 (puruṣamāḥ devāḥ), 4112 (i.e.
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Çiva), 4128 (etasmāt kāraṇād āhur agnim sarvas tu devatāḥ), (4135), etc., 4141 (Içvaro, i.e. Brahmān, 'ngirasañ cāgner apyathāram akalpayat), etc., 4164, 4173, etc. — § 7486 (Tārakavadhop.): 86, 4209 (gave the newborn Skanda a goat), etc. — § 749 (Ānuçāsanik.): 91, 4348 (kṛtvānu karaṇam pūrvaṃ martapūrvam tapodhanah | tato 'gnaye ca Somāya Varuṇāya ca nityaçaḥ | Viçve devāç ca ye nityam Pitṛbhiḥ sahagocarāḥ, etc., at a çrāddha), 4351 (udakānayane caiva stolavyo Varuṇo vibhuḥ | tato 'gniç caiva Somaç ca āpyāyyūviha te 'nagha, et a çrāddha), 4354 (viçve cāgni-mukhā devāḥ); 92 (at a çrāddha ordered by Nimi and performed by the maharṣis, the Pitṛs and gods became afflicted with indigestion in consequence of the offerings (nivūpa) made by persons of the four castes. They repaired to Soma and thence to Svayambhū (Pitāmaha, on the summit of Meru), and thence to Agni. Agni told them to eat these offerings with him. It is for this reason that in making offerings at çrāddhas a share is first offered to Agni; thence also the Brahma-Rākṣasas cannot do any injury to the çrāddha; but the Rākṣasas fly away from it); (v. 4383-4) (Çrāddhakalpa); XIII, 92, (4381), 4382 (etasmāt kāraṇe cāgneh prāk tāvad diyate, nṛpa!) — § 758 (do.): 103, 5142 (ºsambhavat, i.e. Aṅgiras).
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— § 766 (do.): XIII, 126 (at Indra's court Agni declared that the Pitṛs of one who raises his feet to kick a cow, or a brahman, or a fire, become filled with fear, and that he himself has to roast in Hell (Narake pacyate) for 100 lives), (5033). — § 7726 (Pavan-ārjuna-s.): 154, 7225 (even Agni and Brahmān are brahmaas). — § 773b (Kṛṣṇa): 159 [†7378, sn, i.e. Kṛṣṇa, ekadā kakṣagato mahātmā tuṣṭo vibhuḥ Khaṇḍave dhūma-