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.s2.127
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.s2.127
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Bhagadattaja = Vajradatta: XIV, 2189. Bhagadattasuta = Vajradatta: XIV, 2177, 2208. Bhagadattātmaja = Vajradatta: XIV, 2175, 2190, 2220. Bhagaghna = Çiva: VII, 9538. Bhagahan = Vishnu: XIII, 7009 (1000 names). Bhagahārin = Çiva: XIII, 1190 (1000 names¹). Bhāgakara = Çiva: XIII, 1197 (1000 names²). Bhagākshihan = Çiva: XII, 6169. Bhagananḍā (a mātr): § 615u (Skanda): IX, 460, 2629. Bhaganetraghna = Çiva: XIII, 6565, 6806. Bhaganetrahan = Çiva: II, 420; III, 1649. Bhaganetrahara = Çiva: I, 4371, 7970; X, 249 (Haram); XII, 10344, 13149. Bhaganetranipātana = Çiva: III, 1624, 15857; VII, 3465. Bhaganetrānkuça = Çiva: XII, 10423 (1000 names¹). * Bhagavadbhakta (pl. °āḥ) (“adoring the Exalted one”). § 248 (Arjunavanavāsap.): I, 214, 7777. Bhagavadgītā (“the song of the Exalted one”). § 10 (Parvas.): I, 2, 338 (parva, i.e. Bhagavadgītāparvan). [Bhagavadgītāparvan(°va)] (“the section including the song of the Exalted one,” the 69th of the minor parvans of Mhbr.; cf. Bhagavadgītā). § 576: Sañjaya informs Dhṛtarāṣṭra of Bhīṣma’s fall in battle (VI, 13). Dhṛtarāṣṭra’s lament and inquiries (VI, 14). Sañjaya, praising Vyāsa for his yoga-power, i.e. the celestial vision (description) he had given him, began his discourse on the battle. Duryodhana gave Duḥçāsana instructions about the protection of Bhīṣma from Çikhaṇḍin (VI, 15). The two hosts arrayed at sunrise (description). Çakuni, etc. (a), stood each at the head of an akṣauhiṇī;
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the 11th under Bhīṣma (description) stood in advance of the whole army. The Sṛñjayas, headed by Dhṛṣṭadyumna, looked [beholding Bhīṣma] like small animals beholding a lion (VI, 16). On that day Soma approached the region of the Pitṛs. Omens. Every morning Bhīṣma and Droṇa prayed for victory for the Pāṇḍavas, though they must fight for Dhṛtarāṣṭra according to their pledge: Bhīṣma briefly addressed the Kuru army, mentioning Nabhaga, etc. (β), as examples. Karṇa, with his friends and relatives, laid aside his weapons owing to Bhīṣma. Description of the proceedings of the army, especially of Bhīṣma, etc. (γ) (VI, 17). Duḥçāsana, etc. (δ), protected Bhīṣma from behind, etc. (VI, 18). Yudhiṣṭhira told Arjuna, according to the words of the M.-r. Bṛhaspati, to array the troops in needle-mouthed (çucīmukha) array. Arjuna said that he would make a Vajra array, which was designed by Indra; they would all seek shelter with Bhīma. The leaders were Bhīmasena, etc. (ε). Omens (VI, 19). When the sun rose the Kauravas stood facing the west, the Pāṇḍavas facing the east. Disposition of the two armies: Duryodhana, etc. (ζ) (VI, 20). Yudhiṣṭhira sorrowfully addressed Arjuna, who consoled him with his truth, righteousness, etc., which Nārada, Bhīṣma, and Droṇa knew, and which were a powerful aid towards victory according to Brāhman’s words to Indra, etc., on the occasion of the battle between the gods and the Asuras; “victory clings to Kṛṣṇa”;
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it was by choosing him that the gods under Indra had vanquished the Asuras (VI, 21). Disposition of the troops in the Pāṇḍava army: Çikhaṇḍin, etc. (η) (VI, 22). At Kṛṣṇa’s instance Arjuna recited a hymn to Durgā. Durgā appeared and gave him assurances of victory. Merits of this hymn (VI, 23). The combatants of both armies were cheerful, etc. (VI, 24). Before Droṇa, Duryodhana compared the combatants of the Pāṇḍava army: Bhīma, etc. (θ), with his own; Droṇa, etc. (ι). Kṛṣṇa, etc., blew Pāñcajanya, etc. (κ). Arjuna asked Kṛṣṇa to place his chariot between the two armies, so that he might see who were assembled to fight. Beholding his relatives, etc., Arjuna was filled with compassion and overcome with despondency, and refused to fight (VI, 25). Kṛṣṇa appealed to Arjuna to shake off his despondency, but in vain. Kṛṣṇa then declared to Arjuna the nature and the attributes of the soul, and the folly of grieving for the dead, and exhorted him to comply with the duties of his order by fighting fairly, and to apply himself to work for work’s sake, and not for the sake of its results. Kṛṣṇa spoke of contemplation (VI, 26); on the Sāṅkhyas and Yogins; on devotion to work (VI, 27); on his reiterated births; on the best way (VI, 28); on abandonment of actions and application to actions; he has the right view who considers Sāṅkhya and Yoga as one (VI, 29); on the means of rising to devotion (VI, 30); on Kṛṣṇa identified with Brāhman (VI, 31); on the nature of Brāhman (VI, 32);
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on Kṛṣṇa as the pervader of the whole universe, and as the enjoyer of all sacrifice (VI, 33); on Kṛṣṇa as the source of the gods, etc. Arjuna believed what Kṛṣṇa said, and what also had been said by all the R., and the D.-ṛ. Nārada, and Asita Devala and Vyāsa. Kṛṣṇa declared his divine perfections to Arjuna (VI, 34), and disclosed his supremo sovereign form; he was praised by Arjuna (VI, 35); he discoursed on the two kinds of worshippers (VI, 36); on the body and the soul, etc., the supreme object of knowledge (VI, 37); on the three guṇas (Goodness, Passion, and Darkness) (VI, 38); on the symbolical Açvattha (VI, 39); on godlike and demoniac natures and births (VI, 40); on the threefold nature of faith (VI, 41); on renunciation and abandonment. —Arjuna’s delusion is destroyed, and he once more takes up the Gāṇḍīva (VI, 42).