[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.s1.46 # 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.s1.46 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.s1.46 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.46) Açleṣhā (No. 43; cf. No. 44), a nakṣhatra (the ninth when beginning with Açvinī; its star of junction is supposed to be e Hydra; v. Sū° Si°, p. 188). XIII, 64, 3262 (C. has A°, B. A°) (Anuçaṣanik.) (\*°cyān tu yo rūpyam ṛṣhabham vā prayacchati sa sarvabhayanirmuktaḥ sambhavān adhitiṣhṭhati\*; “\*nakṣhatrayogasya dānakalpam\*,” 63, 3212); 89, 4259 (who gives a çrāddha “\*açleṣhāyām\*” procreates intelligent sons) (çrāddhakalpe); 132, 6162 (Anuçaṣanik.) (C.: \*kārttike māsi açleṣhā bahulaç caṣhṭamī çivā\*. B. has \*bahulasyāṣhṭamī\*): on the 8th day of the dark half of the month Kārttika, when the moon is in conjunction with Açleṣhā, a brahman, kṣhattriya, vaiçya, or çūdra may, after having fasted at a çrāddha, after the setting of the sun, deposit an offering of black clothes and unguents with flowers in an ant-hill, begging the serpents to hand it over to the world-elephants to increase their strength that it may be equal to the strength of Viṣhṇu, when he lifted up Earth; the formula is contained in vv. 7163–6; this he should do for a whole year. - [Previous: c5.s1.45](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.45) - [Next: c5.s1.47.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.47.1) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.46](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.46) · Pramāṇa