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.s1.566.3

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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.