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.s1.566.6

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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;