[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.86 # 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 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.86) 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. - [Previous: c5.s1.85](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.85) - [Next: c5.s1.87](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.87) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.86](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.86) · Pramāṇa