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.s2.772

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deprived of their thrones (I, 73). Çakuntalā, after three years, brought forth a beautiful boy, for whom Kanva caused all the religious rites to be performed, and who, when he was only 6 years of age, used to seize and hind to the trees lions, etc., wherefore he was called Sarvadamana. Then Kanva caused his disciples to bring Çakuntalā and the boy to Hāstinapura and introduce them to Duṣyanta. Then they returned to the hermitage. Duṣyanta feigned not to remember anything. Then Çakuntalā became angry ("But knowest thou not the Ancient Wise [*munim purāṇam, i.e. Nārāyaṇa*] who lies in the heart? He who sins is observed by the gods and by him also who occupies every heart. The sun, the moon, the air, fire, earth, sky, water, the heart, Yama, the day, the night, both twilights, and Dharma, all witness the acts of man. Yama Vaivasvata takes no account of the sins of that person with whom [*Nārāyaṇa*] the witness of all acts is gratified. But that person with whom he [*Nārāyaṇa*] is not gratified is tortured for his sins by Yama . . . The son that is born to persons cognizant of the Vedic mantras rescues the spirits of deceased ancestors. Because the son rescues the father from the hell which is called Put, therefore he has been called putra by Svayambhū himself . . . Even ṛṣis cannot create creatures without women . . . 'He shall perform a hundred horse sacrifices,' were the words uttered in the skies when I was in the lying-in room . . . Urvaçī, Pūrvacitti, Sahajanyā, Menakā, Viçvācī, and Ghṛtācī, these are the six foremost Apsarases; amongst them, again, Menakā, born of Brahmān, is the first . . . I can repair to the abodes of Indra, Kubera, Yama, and Varuṇa . . . The Pitṛs have said that the son continues the race, and he is therefore the best of all religious acquirements . . . Manu has said that there are five kinds of sons . . ."). Then she left his presence. But a voice from the sky commanded Duṣyanta to cherish (*bhara*) his son, who should therefore be called Bharata. It was this voice of the Devadūta that Duṣyanta had waited for, that the people should not regard his son as of impure birth. Bharata reduced to subjection all the kings of the earth and became a sārvabhauma-cakravartin, and performed many sacrifices with Kanva as the chief priest. From him has come the Bharata race, of whom the principal ones shall be mentioned (I, 74).