[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.s2.769 # 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.s2.769 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.s2.769 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.769](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.769) Çakuntalā, daughter of Viçvāmitra and Menakā, wife of Duṣyanta, and mother of Bharata. § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 371.—§ 133 (Duṣyanta): I, 69, 2814, 2815 (\*Duṣyanta sees Ç. in the hermitage of Kanva\*); 71, (2908).—§ 134 (Viçvāmitra): I, 71, (2912); 72, 2945 (daughter nf Viçvāmitra and Menakā), 2951 (origin of her name: \*nirjane tu vane yasmāt çakuntaiḥ parivāritā | Çeti nāmāsyāḥ kṛtam cāpi tato mayā\*), 2952, (2953).—§ 135 (Çakuntalop.): I, 73, (2959), (2968); 2977, 2981, (2985), 2987; 74, 2988, 2997, 2998, 3000, 3003, 3060, (3069), 3101, 3102, 3103 (\*Duṣyanta wedded Ç. according to the Gāndharva form of marriage, and returned to his capital; Ç. brought her son Bharata to Duṣyanta, who first did not acknowledge him as his son, until a celestial voice testified the truth of Ç.'s words\*).—§ 156 (Pūruvamç.): I, 95, ††3782 (\*Viçvāmitraduhitaram\*), 3783-4 (= vv. 3102-3).—§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 117, 3974 (\*reme . . . yathā . . . Çakuntalāyām Duṣvantaḥ\*). - [Previous: c5.s2.768](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.768) - [Next: c5.s2.770](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.770) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.769](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.769) · Pramāṇa