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.s1.82

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.s1.82

Language: English

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Açvin (No. 90), the surgeons of the gods; they are, because of their beauty, often mentioned in comparisons. § 3 (Anukramaṇik.): I, 1, 215 (sprung from the mundane egg).—§ 4 (Pauṣyap.): 3, 721 (*devabhiṣajau*), 722 (born of a quail, etc.; cf. Ṛgveda passim), 723 (restore Upamanyu, who was blind, to sight).—§ 5 (Adīvap.): 63, 2445.—§ 6 (Saṃbhavap.): 66, 2553 (sons of Sūrya and the nymph Saṃjñā, who had assumed the form of a female horse).—§ 7 (do.): 67, 2635.—§ 8 (do.): 67, 2746.—§ 9 (do.): 67, 2750.—§ 10 (do.): 95, 3816 (Vicitravīryop.): 102, 4141 (*rūpasaurṇo*).—§ 191 (Saṃbhavap.): 123, 4827.—§ 192 (do.): 124, 4850, 4852 (they in Mādrī procreate Nakula and Sahadeva).—§ 194 (Pāṇḍu): 126, 4922.—§ 221 (Caitrarathap.): 170, 6500 (= Nakula and Sahadeva).—§ 233 (Svayaṃvarap.): 187, 7010 (present at the Svayaṃvara of Kṛṣṇa).—§ 238 (Pañcendrop.): 197, 7277, 7302.—§ 254 (Khāṇḍavap.): 222, 8079 (*iva*).—§ 258 (do.): 227, 8265 (with the other gods they fight Arjuna and Kṛṣṇa in order to defend the Khāṇḍava wood from being burnt; their weapons are flaming herbs).—§ 259 (do.): 229, 8360 (Maṇḍapāla, praising Agni, identifies him with the Açvins, etc.).—§ 270 (Lokapālas.): II, 11, 460 (in the palace of Brahmān).—§ 309 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 3, 127 (it is by their wealth of yoga that R., S., Ā., V., and A. rule the creatures).—§ 336 (Indralok.): 43, 1768 (on the Suravīthī Arjuna met with S., Vi., M., Ā., V., B.-r., etc.);

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46, 1810 (in the town of Indra).—§ 342 (do.): 51, 1973 (*iva*).—§ 362 (Tīrthayātrāp.): 83, 2098 (*A°oḥ sadṛço*).—§ 344 (Nalop.): 53, 2098 (*A°oḥ sadṛço*).—§ 347 (do.): 62, 2356.—§ 362 (Tīrthayātrāp.): 83, 5087 (*no tīrtham āsādya rūpavān abhijāyate*).—§ 375 (do.): 85, 8248 (Marud°: have bathed in the tīrthas).—§ 377 (do.): 86, 8404 (it.).—§ 400 (do.): 118, 10224 (*noḥ* . . . *āyatanāni*, seen at Sūrpāraka by the Pāṇḍavas together with those of V., M., etc., etc., etc.).—§ 401 (do.): 119, 10257.—§ 404 (Sukaṇyāop.): 121, 10312 (*Caryāti*’s offering).—§ 405 (do.): 123-125, 10349, 10360, 10362, 10381, 10384, 10386, 10398, 10400, 10405 (try to seduce Sukaṇyā, daughter of Caryāti and wife of Cyavana, but at her request they make Cyavana young again by letting him bathe with them in a lake; Sukaṇyā chooses to stay with her husband; Cyavana causes Caryāti to offer Soma also to the Açvins, and compels Indra to agree to it; cf. XIII, ch. 156 and passim).—§ 412 (Aṣṭāvakrīya): 134, 10659.—§ 418 (Tīrthay.): 139, 10834.—§ 421 (do.): 142, 10905 (they, with the Maruts and Sādhyas, surround Indra, when he is muttering his daily prayer at the Upper Gaṅgā).—§ 438 (Yakṣayuddhap.): 162, 11819.—§ 443 (Nivātakav.): 168, 12044 (Arjuna in Amarāvatī beheld V., R., S., M.-gaṇas, Ā., and A.).—§ 467 (Mārkaṇḍeyas.): 188, 12924 (*Mārkaṇḍeya* beheld, in the body of Nārāyaṇa, i.e.

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Kṛṣṇa, all D.-gaṇas, S., R., Ā., Gh., P., etc., etc., etc.).—§ 545 (Pativratāmāh.): 294, 16675.—§ 552 (Goharaṇap.): IV, 56, 1762 (*Viçvā Marutām gaṇaiḥ*).—§ 561 (Yānasandhip.): V, 61, 2387, 2399.—§ 564 (Bhagavadyānap.): 105, 3708.—§ 567 (do.): 131, 4423 (in the presence of Duryodhana, agui, Ā., S., V., Ā., M., V.-D., etc., issue from Kṛṣṇa’s mouth).—§ 572 (Rathātirathas.): 169, 5855.—§ 573 (Bhagavadgītāp.): VI, 35, 1252, 1268 (R., Ā., V., S., Vi., Ā., M., Uṣhmapas, G., Y., and the hosts of As. and Si. behold Kṛṣṇa and are amazed).—§ 580 (Bhīṣmavadha): 59, 2595 (i.e. Nakula and Sahadeva).—§ 581 (do.): 65, 2958 (are the ears of Kṛṣṇa).—§ 592 (Saṃcaptakav.): VII, 23, 1035 (i.e. Nakula and Sahadeva).—§ 593 (Abhimanyuvadh.): 34, 1488; 40, 1694.—§ 595 (do.): 62, 2273, 2275 (dīaw Māndhātṛ from the womb of his father).—§ 596 (Pratijñāp.): 76, 2682 (*Vasavac ca sahā°naḥ*).—§ 597 (do.): 84, 2991 (follow Indra to the offering of Caryāti); 87, 4418 (V., M., S., R., Vi., Ā., Agni, Indra, Soma, Pavana, and the ten points of the compass become the partisans of Arjuna, while all Ā. side with Karṇa).—§ 608 (Karṇap.): VIII, 46, 2205 (*iva*); 56, 2785 (*iva*);

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65, 3303 (*iva*), 3304 (*iva*).—§ 615a (Skanda): IX, 45, 2508 (A., S., etc., etc., etc., come to the iavestiture of Skanda), 2540 (give Skanda, at his inauguration, Vardhana and Nandana as his followers).—§ 617 (Aishikap.): X, 13, 653.—§ 641 (Rajadh.): XII, 64, 2395 (created by the supreme god in days of old with S., V., R., Vi., the ganas of M., and Si., they are all observant of kshattriya duties).—§ 656 (Apaddh.): 166, 6141 (Marud° nah: A., S., V., R., M., D., with their preceptors and purohitas, etc., etc., etc., accept the religion of the Vedas).—§ 661 (Mokshadh.): 198, 7191 (their places, like those of the other gods, are hells—nirayāḥ—compared with the place of Paramātman (?).)—§ 665 (do.): 208, 7583 (Nasatyaçaiva Dasraç ca), 7589.—§ 668 (do.): 219, 7950 (çadrau).—§ 673 (do.): 227, 8220.—§ 692 (do.): 281, 10052.—§ 694 (do.): 284, 10215 (bhishajām varau).—§ 702 (do.): 296, 10337 (Agny°-Mārutaḥ: A., V., R., V.-D., S., P., M.-gaṇas, etc., etc., etc., have all been crowned with success by their penances—samiddhās tapasā).—§ 707 (do.): 318, 11708 (to them the soul—of the yogin—arrives when going out through the eyebrows).—§ 712 (Çukotp.): 324, 12176 (Lp., S., V., Ā., R., A., etc., etc., etc., are present when Vyāsa, devoted to the practices of yoga, adores Mahādeva in order to obtain a son—Çuka).—§ 717 (Mokshadh.): 341, 13111 (°bhyām pataye, i.e. Vishnu);

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343, 13206.—§ 721 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 3, 95 (°sadṛça-dyutiḥ).—§ 730 (do.): 14, 731 (Rudrāditya°), 985 (Vishnu says that Ā., V., S., V.-D., A. praise Viçvadeva, i.e. Çiva).—§ 746 (do.): 65, 3295, 3298 (give him beauty who in the month of Açvayuj presents the brahmans with ghee).—§ 747 (do.): 84, 4011 (Ā., V., R., M., A., and S. become afflicted by the Daiteya Asura Tāraka); 85, 4126 (sprang forth, at an offering of Çiva, from the tears [of Brahmān?], v. Agni).—§ 748 (do.): 86, 4201 (S., V., A., etc., etc., etc., come to see Skanda, when he is born).—§ 759 (do.): 107, 5299 (of the result of eating only every 21st day), 5330 (of the result of eating only every 29th day).—§ 766 (do.): 125, 5937 (bhishajām varau: have permitted the devadūta to visit the pitarah); 134, 6186 (of the result of offering in a certain way on the full-moon day).—§ 770 (do.): 151, 7095 (Nasatyaç ca Dasraç ca; Mārtanda’s—the Sun’s—sons, sprung from the nose of Sañjñā), †7160 (no disease befalls him who praises them).—§ 772 (do.): 157, 7306, 7308-9 (Sūrya-putrau), 7311, 7313, 7321-2.—§ 773 (do.): 159, 7387 (procreated from and identified with Kṛshṇa); 161, 7496 (identified with Rudra).—§ 775 (do.): 166, 7642 (Rudrāḥ sā°ṇaḥ).—§ 778 (Açvamedhikap.): XIV, 8, 184 (Nasatyau: worship Mahādeva on Muñjavat, with R., V., Vi., S., etc., etc., etc.); 9, 219; 10, 261.—§ 781 (do.): 15, 375 (iva Nandane).—§ 783 (Anugītāp.): 52, 1514.—§ 789 (Putradarçanap.): XV, 31, 854 (yamajau: i.e.

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Nakula and Sahadeva).—§ 793 (Mausalap.): XVI, 4, 129.—§ 794 (Mahāprasthānikap.): XVII, 3, 95.—§ 795 (Svargārohaṇap.): XVIII, 3, 87 (when Yudbishṭhira’s vision of Hell had ceased M. with Çakra, V., A., S., R., Ā., Si., etc., came to see him); 4, 133 (Yudbishṭhira sees Nakula and Sahadeva in their dwelling-place in Heaven); 6, 215.—Cf. Nāsatyau; Açvinīsutau; Sūryaputrau; [Deva]bhishajau; Açvibhyām pati (= Vishnu).