[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.s2.1360 # 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.s2.1360 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.s2.1360 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.1360](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.1360) Çukābhipatana(m) ("the flying about" of Çuka): XII, 332-334 (12557-12649) (continued from Çuka-Nārada-samvāda, q.v.). § 716: Hearing the words of Nārada, Çuka understood that great misery follows the acquisition of children and wives, and that one has to undergo great labour in order to acquire science and Vedic lore. He resolved to attain to the highest end, that is fraught with the greatest felicity, and whence there is no return into the ocean of births; "that cannot be attained without yoga; I shall therefore have recourse to yoga, and throwing off this body I shall become transformed into wind and enter the Sun; for he does not wane like the Moon (Soma) with the gods; when after death one enters the moon he falls to earth and thence ascends to heaven; with the great Ṛṣis I shall enter the energy of the Sun; I declare before all the creatures . . . . D., Dā., G., Pṛ., U., Rā., and R., that I shall enter all creatures in the world." Obtaining Nārada's permission, Çuka went to Vyāsa, who asked him to stay there for the day that he might behold him for some time. But Çuka, only intent on emancipation, immediately left him and proceeded to Kailāsa, which was inhabited by crowds of ascetics (XII, 332). Having reached the summit of Kailāsa, Çuka set himself to practise yoga (description). Having then obtained the permission of Nārada, he soared into the skies and identified himself with the element of wind; Aps. (Pañcacūḍā, etc.), G., R., etc., wondered. Çuka proceeded in silence, his face turned towards the east, regarding the sun; then to the Malaya mountain; Urvaçī and Pūrvacitti, who always dwell on Malaya, wondered. Çuka asked the gods, etc., to return his father an answer from him, if he should repeatedly call on him (XII, 333). Çuka freed himself of the four kinds of faults, the eight kinds of tamas, the five kinds of rajas, the attribute of sattva, and then dwelt in Brāhman. Meteors began to shoot, etc.; Indra poured showers of rain; Himavat and Meru (the one yellow, made of gold; the other white, made of silver), each 100 yojanas in height and breadth, were in close contact with each other. Journeying towards the north, Çuka clashed against them, and they were immediately broken in two. He was adored by G., R., Y., Rā., and Vidyādharas. He saw from a high region the celestial stream Mandākinī running below, with many Aps. Beholding Çuka, who was bodyless, those unclad aerial beings felt no shame. Vyāsa followed behind him on the same aerial path, by means of high Yoga. Çuka, above the region of the wind, identified himself with Brāhman. R. represented to Vyāsa the achievements of his son. He indulged in lamentations; Çuka, who had entered the universe, had become the soul of everything, and had acquired omnipresence, answered by uttering bho in the form of an echo, and the entire universe echoed the answer of Çuka from that time; mountain caves and mountain sides still echo sounds uttered there. Having cast off all the attributes of sound, etc., and showing his yoga prowess in the manner of his disappearance, Çuka in this way attained to the highest station. Vyāsa sat down and began to think of his son with grief; the Aps. who were sporting on the banks of the celestial stream Mandākinī saw him seated there, and all became agitated with shame. Çiva, with D., G., and great R., came and comforted Vyāsa, who by the favour of Çiva thenceforward always beheld a shadow of his son by his side. “This Nārada and Vyāsa repeatedly told me in days of yore” (XII, 334). \[PCR. rightly remarks that, according to this story, Çuka who recited the Bhāgavata to Parikshit, the grandson of Yudhishṭhira, could not possibly be the Çuka who was Vyāsa’s son.\] - [Previous: c5.s2.1359](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.1359) - [Next: c5.s2.1361](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.1361) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.1360](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.1360) · Pramāṇa