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.s2.1372

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Çukra, the upādhyāya of the Asuras (also named Uçanas) and the planet Venus. § 98 (Amçāvat.): I, 65, 2544 (Asurānām upādhyāyaḥ Ç°s tu ṛshisuto’bhavat, enumeration of his (Uçanasah) four sons).—§ 121 (do.): I, 66, 2606 (Bhṛgoḥ putraḥ Kavir vidvān Çukraḥ Kavisuto grahaḥ, Çukra became a planet; he divided himself into two persons and became the guru of both the Asuras and the gods).—§ 124 (do.): I, 66, 2616 (father of Devī, the wife of Varuṇa).—§ 145 (Kaca): I, 76, 3185, 3195, 3200, (3203), 3204 (Kaviputreṇa Uçanasa), (3215), (3228), (†3239), (†3241); 77, 3263 (the Asuras, ruled by Vṛshaparvan, made Ç. (Kāvyam Uçanasam) their purohita; by his science Sañjīvinī he revived the fallen Asuras; in order to obtain this science Kaca, the son of Bṛhaspati, became the disciple of Ç., and acquired it, after having gratified Devayānī, the daughter of Ç.).—§ 146 (Devayānī): I, 78, 3297, (3314); 79, (3319); 80, (3340), (3343), 3351; 81, 3367 (Bhārgavaḥ), 3387 (Bhārgavaḥ), (3389), (3391), 3394, 3396 (Çarmishṭhā, the daughter of the Asura king Vṛshaparvan, threw Devayānī into a well. Ç. threatened that he would leave the Asuras; then Çarmishṭhā was given as a maid to Devayānī; Yayāti received Devayānī in marriage).—§ 147 (do.): I, 83, (3454), (3459), (3462), (3464) (Ç. cursed Yayāti, because he had taken Çarmishṭhā as his second wife).—§ 148 (Yayāti): I, 85, 3519 (Çukrasya naptāram Yadum), 3527 (Kāryeṇoçanasa), 3530 (all. to § 147).—§ 168 (Bhīshma-Satvatisam.): I, 103, 4151 (°āṅgirasayor iva, sc. Bhīshma).—§ 266 (Çakrasabhāv.): II, 7, 303 (in the palace of Indra), 308 (do.).—§ 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 446 (among other planets present in the palace of Brahmán).—§ 455 (Brāhmaṇamāhātmyak.): III, 185, 12703 (among the honourable appellations of a king).—§ 554 (Sainyodyogap.): V, 6, 112 (prajñayā sadrçaç cāsi Çukreṇāṅgirasena ca, sc. the purohita of Drupada).—[§ 561d (Nara-Nārāyaṇa): V, 49, 1918 (Bṛhaspatic coçanā ca, approached Brahmán).—§ 562 (Bhagavadyānap.): V, 83n, 2946 (among the rshis who worshipped Kṛshṇa).—§ 564 (Mātalīyop.): V, 98, 3543 (etac chāstram narendrāṇām mahac Chukrena bhāshitam).—§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 114, 3898 (p, nityam Proshṭhapadābhyāṃ ca Çukre Dhanapatau tathā | manushyebhyaḥ samādatte Çukraç cintarjitam dhanam, where, according to Nil., the first Ç. is = Çukravāsare (“on Friday”), the following Ç. = Agni); 117, 3972 (reme . . .