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.s2.709

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[Cyavanopākhyāna(m)], "the episode relating to Cyavana." § 745b (Anuçāsanik.): Bhīshma said: In days past M.-r. Cyavana Bhārgava set himself for twelve years to udavāsa ("dwelling in water") at the confluence (madhye) of the Gaṅgā and Yamunā, and stood there like a wooden post (description). He was caught in the net (description) of some fishers (kaivartāḥ) along with a large number of fish, etc. They were afraid; Cyavana said that he would either die with the fishes or be sold with them. With pale faces the fishers repaired to king Nahusha (XIII, 50), who immediately went to Cyavana with his ministers and priest; Cyavana asked him to pay the price for himself and the fishes; Nahusha ordered large sums to be paid to the Nishādas for Cyavana; but the latter declared that these could not represent his price, even his whole kingdom; Nahusha deliberated with his ministers and priests; then there came an ascetic living in the woods, born of a cow, and said that the cow was equal in value to the brahman; this Cyavana approved of, as svāhā- and vashat-kāra are always established