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.s1.86
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.s1.86
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Açvinī¹, a nakshatra, the first of the younger series, the twenty-seventh of the older, beginning with Kṛttikā (see Whitney to Sū° Si°, VIII, 9; VP. II, ch. 8, vol. ii, p. 261 ff.; junction-star β Arictis).—§ 746 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 64, 3285 (he who under A. gives a carriage yoked with horses is reborn in a family that is rich in elephants, horses, and carriages).—§ 749 (do.): 89, 4268 (plur.: °sho açvān vindeta, obtains horses; of the result of bringing a çrāddha “açviniyoge”).—§ 759 (do.): 110, 5390 (°yām sakthinī caiva, cf. Açhinī². —Cf. Açvinī².