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.s2.905.1

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Çantanu, son of Pratīpa and father of Bhīṣma, Citrāṅgada, and Vicitravīrya. § 11 (Parvas.): I, 2, 372.—§ 70 (Ādivamçāvat.): I, 60, 2213 (°oḥ santatim).—§ 130 (Amçāvat.): I, 67, 2711 (jajñire Vasavas tv aṣṭau Gaṅgāyām Çantanoḥ sutāḥ).—§ 155 (Pūruvamç.): I, 94, 3750 (Pratīpasya trayaḥ putrā jajñire, Bharatarsabha | Devāpiḥ Çantanuç caiva Vahlīkaç ca mahārathaḥ), 3751 (became king after Pratīpa had retired to the woods).—§ 156 (do.): I, 95, †3797 (son of Pratīpa and Sunandā), †3798, 3799 (atrānuvamçaçloko bhavati | “yam yam karābhyām spṛcati jīrṇam sa sukham açnute | punar yuvā ca bhavatī tasmāt tam Çantanum viduḥ” iti tad asya Çantanutvam), †3800 (married Gaṅgā, by whom he had the son Devavrata or Bhīṣma), †3802 (married Satyavatī, by whom he had the sons Citrāṅgada and Vicitravīrya).—§ 161 (Mahābhiṣop.): I, 96, 3858 (shall be the father of the Vasus).—§ 162 (Çantanūp.): I, 97, 3882 (the reborn Mahābhiṣa was called Çantanu, because of the asceticism of his father Pratīpa : çantasya jajñe santānas tasmād āsīt sa Çantanuḥ), 3883 (Kurusattamah), 3884, 3887 (is made king), 3888.—§ 163 (Bhīṣmotp.): I, 98, 3900 (marries Gaṅgā), 3901, 3904, 3909 (seven of the eight children whom Çantanu begot in Gaṅgā, she threw into the water, but the eighth was saved by Ç.).—§ 164 (Apavop.): I, 99, (3920), 3923, 3965, 3966, 3967 (having told Ç.