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.s1.428.2

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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;