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.s1.560.4
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.s1.560.4
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once he showered hundreds of arrows at the ocean. The ocean asked him to desist, as he injured the creatures in the waters; Arjuna asked if there existed any bowman who was his equal in shooting. The Ocean named Rāma Jāmadagnya. Arjuna came and began to trouble him; Rāma burnt his troops and prostrated him with his battle-axe and drove away his kinsmen to the mountain fastnesses; their progeny became Vṛṣhalas owing to their inability to find brahmans: so the Draviḍas, etc. Cf. Paraçu-Rāma (*d*).—Cf. also Anūpapati, Haihaya, Haihayendra, Haihayādhipati, Haihayarshabha, Haihayaçreshṭha, Kārtavīrya.