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.s1.428.1

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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.;