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.s2.930

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Çaradvat¹, a rshi. § 83 (Ādivamçāvatāraṇa): I, 63, 2435 (Gautamāt, father of Kṛpa and Kṛpī).—§ 198: Janamejaya said: “Tell me the birth of Kṛpa.” Vaiç. said: The maharshi Gotama had a son Çaradvat, born with arrows. Ç. studied the Dhanurveda in preference to the Vedas, and by his austerities he came to master all weapons. Indra was afraid of him, and sent the devakanyā (cf. v. 5078: apsarasam) Jānapadī to disturb him. He fled from her; but from his seed that had fallen upon a clump of reeds (çaratambe) sprung two children, whom a soldier found and brought to king Çantanu. Çantanu, from pity (kṛpā, v. 5089), brought them up as his own children, whence he called them Kṛpa and Kṛpī. Ç. by his tapas learnt what had happened and came to Çantanu and told him his lineage, etc. He then instructed Kṛpa in the fourfold Dhanurveda and various çastras, and in a short time *Kṛpa* became an eminent teacher, who instructed the Dhārtarāṣṭras, Pāṇḍavas, Yādavas, Vṛṣṇis, and other princes from various countries in the *Dhanurveda*: I, 130, 5072 (*Gautamaḥ*), 5077, 5083 (*Gautamasya*).—§ 572 (*Rathātirathas*): V, 166, 5768 (*Gautamasya maharṣer ya ācāryasya Ç’aḥ çarastambāt suto ’bhavat, i.e. Kṛpa*). Cf. Gautama.