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.s1.566
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.s1.566
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Vidura back; Sañjaya was honoured by Bhīma and Arjuna.—§ 316 (Kirmirav.): III, 11, 411, 425: A. stringed the Gāṇḍīva against Kirmira; but Bhīma made him desist and slew him himself.—§ 317 (Arjunābhigam.): III, 12, 468, (471), 537, 593: Kṛshṇa said: "The earth shall drink the blood of Duryodhana"; Arjuna tried to pacify him by reciting the feats achieved in his former life; then Arjuna, "the soul of Kṛshṇa," became silent, and Janārdana (i.e. Kṛshṇa) replied that he was identical with Arjuna; Kṛshṇa mentioned that A. won her at the svayaṃvara; Kṛshṇa promised that she should be avenged; "Arjuna will slay Karṇa, etc."—§ 321 (Saubhavadhop.): III, 22, 894: Kṛshṇa took leave of A., etc., and set out for Dvārakā.—§ 322 (Dvaitavanapr.): III, 23, 903, 917: Description of the Pāṇḍavas' going to the forest; A. told the citizens, etc., that they would carry off the good name of their enemies into their exile, and asked them to beseech the ascetics to bless them.—§ 325 (Draupadi-paritāp.): III, 27, 1012, 1015: Kṛshṇa lamented their present state (she compared A. to Arjuna Kārtavirya, etc.)—§ 327 (do.): III, 30, 1123 (discourse between Kṛshṇa and Yudhishṭhira); 33, 1325 (Arjuna is incomparable in battle).—§ 329 (Kāmyakav.): III, 36, 1441 (A. is a mighty ṛshi, the friend of Nārāyaṇa, ancient, eternal, a god himself).—§ 330 (Indradarçana): III, 37, 1457, 1504: Yudhishṭhira taught A.
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in private the [Pratismṛti] science, etc., and sent him away to Indra to obtain his weapons.—§ 331 (Kairātap.): III, 38, 1520, 1527, 1533, 1536, 1537: Arjuna on his way to Indra practised austerities for four months. 39, 1558, (1576), 1582, 1584, 1601: Combat between A. and Çiva in the guise of a Kirāta, etc.; Çiva gave him "cakshus."—§ 332 (do.): III, 39: A. worshipped Çiva, (1624).—§ 333 (do.): III, 40, 1643, 1656, 1661: Çiva said to A.: "Thou wast in thy former life Nara, the friend of Nārāyaṇa; in Badarī thou wast engaged in ascetic austerities for thousands of years; the Gāṇḍīva (which I got from thee by my power of illusion) is the bow with which thou assistedst Kṛshṇa in chastising the Dānavas during the coronation of Indra." When granted a boon, Arjuna asked Çiva to give him the Pāçupata weapon named Brahmaçiras (c). Having purified himself, he was instructed in its use on the condition that he should not hurl it against any human being, for then it would destroy the universe. The earth trembled, etc.; the gods and Dānavas beheld the weapon in its embodied form by the side of Arjuna. Then Arjuna was touched by Çiva, and all that was bad in his body was dispelled. Having said to Arjuna, "Go thou into heaven," Çiva went up into the skies accompanied by Umā.—§ 334 (do.): III, 41, 1665, 1672, 1676, 1680, 1705, 1711, 1713: Then the Lokapālas, etc., came to A. on the Himavat; they granted him "vision" (dṛshṭi) that he might see them;
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Yama gave him his staff as a weapon, Varuna his nooses, Kubera (saying that in ancient kalpas A. had ever gone through ascetic austerities along with them) gave him his favourite weapon Antardhāna (c), etc.—§ 335 (Indralok.): III, 42, 1723, (1728), 1733, 1742: A. ascended with Mātali to heaven on Indra's car.—§ 336 (do.): III, 43, 1778: A. dwelt with Indra at Amarāvatī.—§ 337 (do.): III, 44, 4: A. dwelt there for five years.—§ 338 (do.): III, 45, 1812: Urvaçī becomes enamoured of A., who had studied the four Vedas with the Aṅgas and Upanishads and the Ākhyāna (i.e. the Purāṇa) as the fifth. 46, 1833, (1836), 1852, (1853), (1861), 1867: As Arjuna said that he regarded Urvaçī as his mother, she cursed him, saying that he would have to pass his time among females as a dancer and destitute of manhood; Indra told him that this would come to pass in the thirteenth year of their exile, then he should regain his manhood; (the desire of the man that listens to this history of A. never runs after lustful ends, etc.).—§ 339 (do.): III, 47: One day Lomaça came to the abode of Indra; as Lomaça wondered how A., who was a kshattriya, had attained the seat of Indra, Indra explained to him who Arjuna really was; A. had dwelt with Vishnu in Badari, which the gods and rshis were unable to behold, and whence the Gangā, worshipped by Siddhas and Cāraṇas, springs forth; ho and Kṛshṇa had, at Indra's desire, been born on earth and would lighten its burden, etc.
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Lomaça was sent to Yudhishṭhira in order to bring him news about A. and accompany him on a tīrthayātrā.—§ 340 (do.): III, 48, 1919, 1926: Dhṛtarāshṭra expressed his anxiety at Arjuna's exploits to Sañjaya; 49, 1952, especially his encounter with Cira in the guise of a Kirāta, etc.—§ 341 (do.): III, 50, 1966: Arjuna's absence lasted for five years.—§ 342 (do.): III, 51, 1973, 1993: Dhṛtarāshṭra expressed his anxiety before Sañjaya.—§ 343 (Nalop.): III, 52, 2018: One day, when the Pāṇḍavas were grieving for Arjuna, the rshi Bṛhadaçva came and told the history of Nala, who was yet more unfortunate than Yudhishṭhira.—§ 356 ff. (Tirthay.): III, 80, 4001: The Pāṇḍavas, etc., lamented Arjuna. 81 ff.: Pulastya's enumerations of tīrthas.—§ 377 (do.): III, 88, 8289, 8295: Yudhishṭhira told Dhanmya that he did not like to live longer in the Kāmyaka wood without Arjuna. 87 ff.: Dhanmya described the tīrthas of the various regions to Yudhishṭhira.—§ 378 (do.): III, 91, 8424, 8428: Lomaça arrived and told that Arjuna had obtained Brahmaciras (b), learned the Gāndharva Veda, etc. 92, 8439: Lomaça said that Arjuna had asked him to accompany Yudhishṭhira to all the tīrthas.
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93 ff.: Accompanied by Lomaça, the Pāṇḍavas (except Arjuna), etc., visited all the tīrthas.—§ 400 (do.): III, 118, 10218, 10219, 10220: At the Nārītīrthas they heard of, and praised the deed of Arjuna.—§ 402 (do.): III, 120, 10282: Kṛshṇa said that Arjuna, etc., would never renounce the rules of his caste.—§ 418 (do.): III, 139, 10838: Kṛshṇa always sought the protection of Bhīma, whether Arjuna were near or not.—§ 420 (Gandhamādanapr.): III, 141, 10896: Yudhishṭhira complained to Bhīma that he had not seen Arjuna for five years; they now ought to enter Gandhamādana (b) in company with brahmans of strict vows.—§ 424 (Bhīmakadalikhaṇḍaprav.): III, 146, 11101: Bhīma thought "as Arjuna has gone to heaven and I have come here for the sake of the flowers, what will Yudhishṭhira do?"—§ 436 (Yakshayuddhap.): III, 159, 11658: When they had come to the hermitage of Ārshṭisheṇa, Ārshṭisheṇa told the Pāṇḍavas that they must not attempt to proceed further, but wait for Arjuna there.—§ 438 (do.): III, 162: Arjuna had never uttered an untruth; in heaven he was honoured by gods, Pitṛs, and Gandharvas, and by Cāntanu, who, after having performed seven great sacrifices on the Yamunā, resided in the world of Çakra, and had enquired about his welfare.—§ 440 (do.): III, 164, 11883, 11902: Since the departure of Arjuna the Pāṇḍavas had not felt joy.
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After having dwelt in the abode of Indra for five years and obtained all celestial weapons from him, viz., Āgneya, Varuṇa, Saumya, Vāyavya, Vaishṇava, Aindra, Pāçupata, Brāhmya, Pārameshṭhya, likewise those of Prajāpati, Yama, Dhātṛ, Savitṛ, Tvashtṛ, and Vaiçravaṇa, Arjuna took leave of Indra and came to Gandhamādana.—§ 441 (Nivātakavacayuddhap.): III, 165 f., 11903: One day the Pāṇḍavas saw Arjuna descending to them with Mātali on Indra's car; A. gave Draupadī precious gems, presented to him by Indra; the next morning Indra visited them.—§ 442 (do.): III, 167, 11937, (11943): When Indra had gone. A. related his journey; against the Kirāta he had in vain employed the Vāyavya, Sthūṇākarṇa, Jāla, and the Çalabhāstra, and showers of shafts and stones, as the Kirāta had swallowed them all, and he had in vain discharged the Brahmāstra.—§ 443 (do.): III, 168: Arjuna continued his tale; he enumerated a great many weapons, the use of which Indra promised to teach him; Mātali wondered that Arjuna was not jerked on the car of Indra, though Indra himself got jerked at the first pull of the steeds; when he had learned the use of the weapons, Indra had said that not even the gods could now conquer him; he had received fifteen weapons and learnt five ways of using them;
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Indra had asked him as his fee to slay the Nivātakavacas, and had given him the car (conducted by Mātali) upon which he (Indra) had vanquished Bali, etc., and "this" diadem and ornaments of his own and the impenetrable mail, and he had fastened "this" durable (ajarām) string to the Gāṇḍīva, and the gods gave him the shell Devadatta by which Indra had conquered the worlds (cf. § 446).—§ 444 (do.): III, 169 f., 12173, 12181: Arjuna related his victory over the Nivātakavacas; Indra had formerly been told by Svayambhū that he himself would destroy them in another body; as the gods were unable to slay them, Indra had presented those weapons to Arjuna in order to have them killed. Then Arjuna and Mātali again went to the abode of the gods.—§ 445 (do.): III, 173: While returning, A. destroyed Hiraṇyapura, inhabited by Palomas and Kālakhañjas, who could not be slain even by the gods, etc.; therefore Brahmán had determined that Arjuna, a mortal, should kill them; he employed the Raudra weapon. Mātali took Arjuna to the abode of Indra, and in detail related Arjuna's achievement to Indra, and Indra praised him, and said that gods, etc., would not be able to stand him in fight, etc.—§ 446 (do.): III, 174, 12281, (12289): Indra said that in the battlefield Bhīshma, Droṇa, etc., would not be equal to one-sixteenth part of Arjuna. Then Indra gave him "this" golden garland, the shell Devadatta, etc. (see § 443). Then Indra told him to depart. A.
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promised that he would show Yudhishṭhira all the celestial weapons the next morning.—§ 447 (do.): III, 175, 12292, 12309: The next morning, when Arjuna was about to show the celestial weapons to Yudhishṭhira, the earth trembled, etc. Vāyu laid celestial garlands on Arjuna; sent by the gods, Nārada came and prevailed upon Arjuna not to charge the celestial weapons without necessity, which would destroy the three worlds; then the gods departed.—§ 448 (Ajagarap.): III, 176, 12317: The Pāṇḍavas spent four years with Arjuna in the garden of Kubera.—§ 450 (do.): III, 179, 12427: Bhīma having been seized by a serpent (Nahusha), Yudhishṭhira sent Arjuna to protect Draupadī, while he himself went to set out on the tracks of Bhīma.—§ 452 (do.): III, 183, 12559: In the Kāmyaka wood, the Pāṇḍavas, with Arjuna, came accompanied by the rshis (Ghosha yātrāp.): III, 236: The Pāṇḍavas were dwelling in the forest. Dhṛtarāshṭra was much afraid that he would not have left the celestial weapons, if it were not for Arjuna and his brothers.