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.s2.501

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[Brahma - Rudra - saṃvāda(ḥ)], ("the discourse between Brahmán and Rudra"). § 717d (Nārāyaṇīya): Vaiśampāyana said: In the midst of the ocean of milk there is a mountain of golden splendour, named Vaijayanta, where Brahmán (leaving his abode inhabited by D., As., R., G., and Aps.) often used to sit thinking of *Adhyātma*; once, in days of yore, his son Çiva (endued with high yoga), who had sprung from his forehead, when proceeding along the sky saw him and dropped down before him, and was instructed by him about the many *Puruṣas* created by him (Brahmán), and the one *Puruṣa*, who transcends all *Puruṣas* and is invisible, etc. (XII, 351). Brahmán discoursed on the indications of *Puruṣa* (Mahāpuruṣa) (XII, 352).