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.s1.43
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.s1.43
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Açāvaha¹: I, 3, 42 (Anukram.): according to the explanation of Nīlakaṇṭha, either a synonym of Vāyu (the wind), the tenth of the twelve sons (i.e. “representations,” Nil.) of Heaven (Dyaus) (= Māyā, Nil.) and Vivasvat (i.e. Brahman, Nil.), viz., the geniuses of the ten senses and Mind (*manas*) together with Mahya (B. *Sahya*, i.e. Manu, Nil.), who are all manifestations of the one “Son of Heaven” (*divaḥ putro*),—or (more probably) a Vivasvat or form of the Sun (“*firasvataḥ*” being then an irregular nom. plur.; but B. has *putrā* instead of *purā*).