[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.s2.888 # 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.s2.888 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.s2.888 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s2.888](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.888) Çankhatīrtha, a tīrtha on the Sarasvatī. § 615ƒ (Baladevat.): Here Baladeva beheld a gigantic tree, Mahāçankha, tall as Meru, looking like Çvetaparvata, and resorted to by many R.; there dwell Y., Vd., Rā., Pṛ., and Si., in thousands; all of them, abandoning other kinds of food, observe vows and regulations, and take at due seasons the fruits of that tree for their sustenance, and wander unseen by men: IX, 37, 2137. - [Previous: c5.s2.887](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.887) - [Next: c5.s2.889](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.889) - [Up: c5.s2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.888](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s2.888) · Pramāṇa