[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.s2.139 # 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 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.s2.139 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.139) 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. - [Previous: c5.s2.138](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.138) - [Next: c5.s2.140](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.140) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.139](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.139) · Pramāṇa