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.s1.190.4

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Rudra promised to do so, and plunged into the waters and practised austerities. Then Brahmā into existence another being in order to make him lord of living creatures, and he created Dakṣa. Rudra ran towards their creator from hunger, and ate him, and he repaired to Brahmāṇ. . . . as their food, and the weak being eaten by the strong, creatures multiplied. Then Rudra and Brahmā became angry, and caused a great destruction of beings in the earth. He had created the world, and all these creatures were destroyed by his anger and rage, to the great terror of the gods, until a severer austerity was performed by the gods, and he was prepared . . .