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.s1.153

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Agniçiras, a tīrtha. § 377 (Dhaumya-tīrthakathana): III, 85, 8376. Agnidhārā, a tīrtha. § 370 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 84, 8124. Agnijvāla = Çiva (1000 names). Agnikanyāpura, a tīrtha (?). § 733 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 25, 1729 (cf. Agni). Agnimat, an Agni. § 490 (Āṅgirasa): III, 221, 14207 (Agnaye). [Agniparābhava(h)] (“the defeat of Agni”), a part of Khāṇḍavadahanaparvan. § 255: I, 223, 8094-8156. Questioned by Janamejaya why Agni desired to consume the forest of Khāṇḍava, Vaiçampāyana related: It has been heard in the Purāṇa that King Çvetaki performed sacrifices so incessantly that his ṛtvijes left him, their eyes being afflicted with the continued smoke; he then had his sacrifice completed by other ṛtvijes. He then desired to perform another sacrifice, which should extend over 100 years. But he could not obtain any priests to assist him; they told him to apply to Rudra. He then went to Kailāsa, and by observing the most rigid austerities he prevailed upon Rudra that his sacrifice should be completed, on the condition that he could for twelve years without intermission pour libations of clarified butter into the fire, himself leading all the while the life of a brahmacārin. When this had been done Rudra said that he would not himself assist at the sacrifice, which properly belonged to the brahmans; but he caused Durvāsas (b) to complete it. [When the time came Çvetaki ascended to heaven (Svarga) with the ṛtvijes and sadasyas who had helped him in life, B.] But Agni became sick, because he had drunk clarified butter for twelve years, and applied to Brahmán. Brahmán told him to consume the forest of Khāṇḍava, that abode of the enemies of the gods, which he had of old once burnt to ashes at the request of the gods, together with its living population; then he would regain his own nature. Seven times Agni, assisted by Vāyu, set the forest on fire; but the inhabitants extinguished the fire (the elephants bringing water in their trunks, and the Nāgas in their hoods, etc.) (I, 223).—§ 256a: I, 224, 8157-8165a. Agni again applied to Brahmán, who told him to solicit the old deities Nara and Nārāyaṇa (now Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa) to aid him. Agniputra = Skanda: IX, 2550-4. Agni-Shomau (Agni and Soma): II, 302. Agnishoma (“belonging to Agni and Soma”). § 753 (Anuçāsanik., Dānadharma): XIII, 97, 4660 (Agni-Shomam Vaiçadevam Dhanvantaryam anantaram | Prajānām pataye caiva pṛthak homo vidhīyate). Agnishomīya (do.). § 717 (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 343; XIV, †13223 (brāhma). Agnisuta = Skanda: VII, 6821 (Krauñcam Agnisuto yathā). Agnisvattāḥ. § 267 (Yama-sabhā-v.): II, 8, 341 (pitaraḥ, a kind of Pitrs in the palace of Yama).—§ 270 (Brahma-sabhā-v.): II, 11, 462 (Brahmán). Agnitīrtha, a tīrtha on the Sarasvatī. § 615b+w (Baladevatīrthay.): IX, 47, 2740, 2747 (A., frightened with the curse of Bhṛgu, disappeared, concealing himself in the Çamī-wood; D. with I. searched and found him, with Bṛh. at their head; A., from Bhṛgu's curse, became an eater of everything). Agniveça, the teacher of Droṇa in arms. § 200 (Droṇa): I, 130, 5107.—§ 202 (do.): 131, 5172 (maharṣir).—§ 210 (Sambhavap.): I, 139, 5525.—Cf. Agniveçya.