[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.388 # 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.s1.388 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.s1.388 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.388](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.388) ∗ We are not told in the text whose son Niçcyavana is. He might be the another son of Bṛhaspati, and that is apparently the opinion of Nil. and PCR. † It is not said in the text whose son he is. PCR. takes Niṣkṛti to be another name of Satya. ‡ PCR. supposes Vicvajit to be Bṛhaspati's third son, Vicvabhuj the fourth, Vaḍavāgni the fifth, Ūrdhvabhuj the same as Vaḍavāgni, Sviṣṭakṛt the sixth son of Bṛhaspati, Manyu (fury) as predicate to Manyantī, "daughter of Prajāpati," Svāhā the same as Manyantī; Kāma, Amogha, and Uktha the sons of Svāhā, by sattva, rajas, and tamas respectively; Mahavāc to mean "the great word, i.e. the word of God," and Samācvāsa ("the means of rest") as epithet of Uktha. ‖ Nil. and PCR. takes "agnir Āṅgirasaçaira" to be an epithet of Cyavana, and Suvarcaka (sic!) to stand alone as the fifth name. § I.e. Uktha, according to Nil. and PCR. ¶ Otherwise PCR. and Nil. \*\* I.e. Udātta and Anudātta, Nil. and PCR. †† I.e. the five senses, Nil. and PCR. - [Previous: c5.s1.387](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.387) - [Next: c5.s1.389](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.389) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.388](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.388) · Pramāṇa