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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.s1.144.4

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.s1.144.4

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c5.s1.144.4

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.