[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.s1.428.3 # 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.s1.428.3 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.s1.428.3 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.428.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428.3) 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. - [Previous: c5.s1.428.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428.2) - [Next: c5.s1.428.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428.4) - [Up: c5.s1.428](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.428.3) · Pramāṇa