[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.s2.771 # 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.s2.771 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.s2.771 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.771](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.771) Çakuntalopākhyāna(m), "episode relating to Çakuntalā." § 133 (Sambhav.): I, 68-70: \*Duṣyanta (q.v.) saw Çakuntalā (§ 134), daughter of Viçvāmitra (q.v.) and Menakā.—§ 135: Enumeration of the eight forms of marriage according to Manu. Duṣyanta, during the absence of Kanva, wedded Çakuntalā according to the Gāndharva form, promising her that her son should be the heir apparent, and departing told her that he should send troops to take her to his capital. Kanva, by his spiritual knowledge, knew what she had done, and approved of it, and bestowed on her the boon that the Paurava monarchs might ever be virtuous and never be - [Previous: c5.s2.770](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.770) - [Next: c5.s2.772](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.772) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.771](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.771) · Pramāṇa