[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.s1.43 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.43) 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\*). - [Previous: c5.s1.42](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.42) - [Next: c5.s1.44](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.44) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.43](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.43) · Pramāṇa