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.s1.428
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.s1.428
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Having narrated his former relations to Mahādeva, Upamanyu (g) there pointed out to me Si., R., V.-D., Y., G., Aps., etc., and said that in the sixth month from that time I should behold Mahādeva and obtain twenty-four boons from him and Umā. He gave me certain mantras, by reciting which I was sure to behold Śaṅkara. On the eighth day I underwent the dīkṣā, etc. (description); for one month I lived on fruits, etc.; then I beheld Mahādeva (description) and Umā in a cloud (description), surrounded by 1,100 Rudras, etc., praised by Ā., V., V.-D., A., Indra, etc. (w), uttered the Rahantāra Sāman in the presence of Bhava (Śiva). Innumerable masters of Yoga, etc. (aa), were bowing down to him; Sanatkumāra, etc. (ββ), were beheld by me standing there in their bodily forms; Lp., etc. (γγ), were seen to bow down to Śiva; G. and Aps. sang and hymned him; V.-D., etc. (δδ), were adoring him in thought, word, and deed; Brahmán, Cakra, etc., looked at me; I, however, had not the power to look at Mahādeva. I saluted Mahādeva: ‘Thou art,’ etc. (εε). Cira roared like a lion; the innumerable brahmans there present, etc. (ζζ), bowed down to Śiva. Śiva, looking at Umā, Indra, and myself, told me to ask for eight boons” (XIII, 14). Kṛṣṇa went on to enumerate the eight boons, including hundreds upon hundreds of children and (granted by Umā in the name of Śiva) a son Cāmba. “Umā also granted me eight boons” (including 100 sons), “and said that I should have 16,000 wives, etc.;
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and that 7,000 guests would daily feed at my palace. Then Śiva and Umā disappeared with their gaṇas. All this I related to Upamanyu” (XIII, 15). Upamanyu said: There was in the Kṛta age a R. Taṇḍi who devoutly adored the god [Śiva] for 10,000 years. He succeeded in beholding Mahādeva and praised him (ηη), and further said: Neither Brahmán, etc. (θθ), know thee. Śiva said that Taṇḍi should be imperishable and eternal, etc., and his son become the author of Sūtras, etc., and granted him a boon. Taṇḍi said: Let my devotion to thee be steady. Then the god disappeared. Then Taṇḍi came to my (i.e. Upamanyu’s) asylum and told me all that had happened to him. Dost thou hear all those celebrated names [of Mahādeva] that Taṇḍi said unto me. Brahmán had at one time enumerated 10,000 names of Mahādeva; in the scriptures 1,000 names of him occur. They are not known to all, but were uttered in days of yore by Brahmán for the purpose of adoring Śiva. Having acquired them by the favour of Brahmán, Taṇḍi communicated them to me (XIII, 16). Kṛṣṇa said: “B.-r. Upamanyu said: I shall adore [Śiva] with names uttered by Brahmán, R., in the Vedas and Vedāṅgas, applied by Taṇḍi, etc. [i.e. Mahādeva-sahasranāma-stotra].” Blessing upon the reader; “Dā., Y., Rā., Pṛ., Yatudhānas, and Gh. can do no injury to him” (XIII, 17). Vyāsa told Yudhishṭhira to gratify Śiva with this hymn consisting of 1,008 names;
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Vyāsa had himself recited it in former days, when engaged in penances on Meru in order to obtain a son, and he had obtained the fulfilment of all his wishes. After this Kapila, etc. (ι), obtained boons from Śiva. Then [Rāma] Jāmadagnya, etc. (κκ), narrated to Yudhishṭhira the boons they had been granted by Śiva. Vaiśampāyana continued: Hearing these marvellous feats of Mahādeva related by the ascetics, Yudhishṭhira became amazed. Then Kṛṣṇa said to Yudhishṭhira: Upamanyu said to me: Unrighteous men, stained by Rajas and Tamas, do not succeed in attaining to Īśāna (Śiva); even if a person lives in the enjoyment of every pleasure and luxury, yet he comes to be regarded as the equal of pure-minded forest recluses if he is devoted to the Supreme Deity; if Rudra is pleased with a person, he can confer upon him the position of either Brahmán or Keçava or Cakra with all the deities under him, or the sovereignty of the three worlds; a person who devastates the whole universe does not become stained with sin if he adores and worships Śiva . . . Then Kṛṣṇa said to Yudhishṭhira: Aditya, etc. (λλ), have sprung from that creator of all creatures (Śiva); indeed, that subtle Brahmán is the cause of life. Blessing upon the reader (XIII, 18). [§ 730, i.e. XIII, 14-18, is called Meghavāhanopākhyāna.] — § 731: Yudhishṭhira enquired after the purport of the scriptural injunction to husband and wife about the joint performance of all duties.
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Bhīshma related the old narrative of the discourse between Aṣṭāvakra and Diçā, i.e. Aṣṭāvakra-Dik-saṃvāda (b), (XIII, 19-21). — § 732: Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discoursed on the question who is worthy of receiving gifts, etc., quoting R. Mārkaṇḍeya, etc. (a), (XIII, 22). Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the ordinances regulating the actions to be perpetrated towards the deities and the Pitrs on the occasions of śrāddhas: “One should carefully perform all acts relating to the deities in the forenoon, and all acts relating to the Pitrs in the afternoon; that gift that is made untimely, etc., is appropriated by Rā.”; the brahmans that must not be invited to śrāddhas, and those that should be invited, etc.; Jātakarman, etc. (XIII, 23). Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the circumstances under which a person may become guilty of brahmanicide without actually slaying a brahman (XIII, 24). — § 733: Asked by Yudhishṭhira about the holy places on earth, Bhīshma repeated the enumeration of them (a) made by Aṅgiras to Gautama, who put this same question, especially mentioning the result of bathing in Candrabhāgā, etc. (b), in Puṣkara, etc. (c), in Hiraṇyabindu, etc. (d), in Indratoyā, etc. (e), in Gaṅgādvāra, etc. (f), at Saptagaṅgā, etc. (g), at Kanyakūpa, etc. (h), in Devikā, etc. (i), Mahāgaṅgā, etc. (j), Vaimānika, etc. (k), in Carastamba, etc. (l), Citrakūṭa, etc. (m), Matangavāpī, etc. (n), Gaṅgāhrada, etc. (o), Gaṅgā-Yamunayos tīrtham, etc.
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(p), Marudgaṇa, etc. (q), Utpātaka, etc. (r), Aṣmapṛṣṭha, etc. (s), Viçālā, etc. (t), Punarāvartananda, etc. (u), Rāmahrada, etc. (v), Narmadā, etc. (w), Caṇḍalikāgrama (B. Añjali°), etc. (x), Ujjānaka, etc. (y), Kālodaka, etc. (z). For the purpose of repairing to all the tīrthas in the world, one should mentally think of those amongst them that are wholly or almost inaccessible. Aṅgiras had obtained this discourse from Kaçyapa. Blessing upon the reader (XIII, 25). — § 734: Vaiśampāyana said: Though equal unto Bṛhaspati in intelligence, Brahmán in forgiveness, Indra in prowess and Sūrya in energy, Bhīshma (the son of Gaṅgā) had been overthrown in battle by Arjuna. Accompanied by his brothers, etc., Yudhishṭhira asked him these questions as he was lying on a bed of arrows in expectation of his death. Many M.-ṛ. had come there to see Bhīshma. Yudhishṭhira with his brothers duly saluted them, who then sat down and conversed. Yudhishṭhira became delighted, and then, with the permission of the Pāṇḍavas, made the usual enquiries. The M.-ṛ. then waited upon Bhīshma, who was like the sun blazing forth in the firmament, and the company of the Ṛṣis, the Pāṇḍavas, and Kṛṣṇa, all sat down over with Bhīshma.