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.s2.139

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Bhagīratha (descendant of Sagara). § 5 (*Anukram.*): I, 1, 221.—§ 61 (*Sarpasattra*): I, 559, †2112.—§ 232 (*Svayam-varap.*): I, 186, 7001 (a).—§ 263 (*Sabhākriyāp.*): II, 3, 67.—§ 267 (*Yamasabhāv.*): II, 322 (in the palace of Yama).—§ 274 (*Rājasūyārambhap.*): II, 649.—§ 296 (*Dyūtap.*): II, 53, 1929.—§ 323 (*Davaitavanap.*): III, 25, 956.—§ 376 (*Tirthay.*): III, 85, 8269 (*Nārada* exhorts Yudhishṭhira to seek renown by visiting the tīrthas, as Bh., etc.).—§ 377 (*Dhaumyatīrth.*): III, 87, 8310 (on the bank of Gaṅgā Bh. brought many sacrifices).—§ 378 (*Tirthay.*): III, 92, 8444 (*Lomaça* exhorts Yudhishṭhira to visit the tīrthas in order to be "liberated," as Bh., *Gaya*, *Yayāti*, etc.); 94, 8504.—§ 386 (*Agastyop.*): III, 106, 8826.—§ 387 (*Sagara*): III, 106, 8828 (*pratiçrayat*).—§ 389 (*Gaṅgāvataraṇa*): III, 107, 9918 (*son of Dilīpa*); 108, 9940 (*Gaṅgā* promises him to descend in order to purify his forefathers), 9944 (*practises austerities on Kailāsa*); 109, 9947 (*vacas*; *Çiva* promises him to sustain the Gaṅgā), 9950, 9959 (*Gaṅgā* descends), 9961 (*fills up the Ocean with the Gaṅgā*, whom he made his daughter).—§ 573 (*Ambop.*): V, 178, 7096 (*sutā nadī*, i.e. Gaṅgā).—§ 574 (*Jambūkh.*): VI, 6, 238 (*Bh. dwelled for many years at Bindusaras after having seen Gaṅgā).—§ 595 (*Shoḍaç.*): VII, 60, 2249, 2256, 2258; Bh. (*Aikṣvākam*, v. 2256) caused the shore of Gaṅgā Bhāgīrathī to be covered by flights of steps (*cayanaḥ*) made of gold; he presented the brahmans with 1,000,000 of damsels decked with ornaments of gold, etc. (*description*). It is related how Gaṅgā became his daughter and then his "son" (*see the note of PCR., p. 173*); G. sang all this before R., D., and men. At last he ascended to Brahmaloka through the grace of the brahmans (v. 2260, v. Nil.).—§ 599 (*Jayadrathav.*): VII, 94, 3450 (e) (*a rājarṣi*).—§ 604 (*Karṇap.*): VIII, 57, 117 (*rājā Bh°o vṛddho, has been slain).—§ 632 (*Shoḍaçarāj.*): XII, 29, 956, 962 (*Aikṣvākam*).—§ 658b (*Kṛtaghnop.*): XII, 170, 6345 (*rathākṛtantaḍeḍan*).—§ 734 (*Anuçāsan.*): XIII, 26, †1851 (*brought down Gaṅgā having gratified all D. by terrible austerities).—§ 746 (do.): XIII, 764, 3689.—§ 758 (do.): XIII, 103, 4909 (*°sya saṃvādam Brāhmaṇaç ca*), 4910 (*transcended the world of the gods, that of kine, and that of the ṛṣis*), 4911, 4912, (†4913), 4950 (*rājānam*).—§ 767 (do.): XIII, 137a, 6270 (*rājarṣi*; attained to the imperishable worlds by giving his daughter Haṃsī to Kautsa), 6271 (*attained to the highest worlds by giving 100,000 cows with calves to Kohala).—§ 775 (do.): XIII, 166a, 7677.—§ 795 (*Svargāroh.*): XVIII, 30, 107.