[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.s1.442.5 # 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.s1.442.5 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.s1.442.5 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.442.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.442.5) of one who raises his foot to kick a cow or a brahman or a fire become filled with fear; that D. become highly dissatisfied, and that he himself has to be roasted in hell (\*narake pacyate\*) for 100 ages; fire refuses to accept his libations. \*Viśvāmitra\* said: He who offers rice boiled in sugared milk to P., facing the south, at noon, in the first "elephant shade" (\*gajacchāyāyām pūrvasyām\*, v. BR.), when in the month of \*Bhādrapada\* \[the conjunction of the moon with\] \*Maghā\* takes place in the dark fortnight, has \[thereby\] performed a great \*śrāddha\* \[every year\] for thirteen years \[in succession\]. The cows said: († v. 6042-5) that man becomes free from his sins who adores a cow, saying: ". . . in \*Brahmapura\* (city of \*Brahmán\*), in days of yore, thou wast present; thy calf at the sacrifice of \*Indra\*; thou who stood \*Viṣṇupada\* and in the path of \*Agni\* (? \*Vibhāvaso\*); gods with \*Nārada\* call thee \*Sarvasahā\*"; he in regions (\*lokān\*) of \*Indra\*, etc. They that ambulated Brahman, and \*Vasiṣṭha\* asked how men may acquire the merits attaching to a bath, answered: If one, in the bright fortnight of \*Pauṣa\*, when \*Rohiṇī\* is in conjunction with a bath, lies under the open sky, wearing a garment, with faith, and contemplates the rays of the sun, he attains the sacrifices. This is the path of the recommended. - [Previous: c5.s1.442.4](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.442.4) - [Next: c5.s1.443.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.443.1) - [Up: c5.s1.442](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.442) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.442.5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.442.5) · Pramāṇa