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.s1.66

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Açvasena, a Serpent: I, 3, 803 (Utaṅka) (praised by Utaṅka: "always follows Takṣaka and dwells with him in Kurukṣetra on the river Ikṣumatī").—§ 258 (Khāṇḍ.): I, 227, 8237, 8237, 8241 (son of Takṣaka, rescued by Indra from the Khāṇḍava wood); 228, 8330; 229, 8332 (Çārṅakap.).—VIII, 90, 4633 (Karṇap.) (angry on account of his mother's death, he has gone to Pātāla; thence he comes, when Arjuna has his last combat with Karṇa, and assumes the form of one of Karṇa's arrows in order to kill Arjuna, who, however, is rescued by Kṛṣṇa, and at his instigation kills Açvasena).—IX, 61, 3423 (Gadāyuddhap.) (pannagendrasutasya).