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.s2.961
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.s2.961
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*Çārṅga*, the bow of Kṛṣṇa (Viṣṇu). § 262 (*Bhagavad-yāna*): II, 2, 34.—§ 320 (*Saubhavadhap.*): III, 20, 795; 21, 843, 850.—§ 569 (*Bhagavadyānap.*): V, 131, 4427.—§ 570f (*Rukmin*): Ç. is said to have been in the possession of Viṣṇu; it was held by Kṛṣṇa, who obtained it, baffling the nooses of Muru and slaying that Asura, and vanquishing Naraka while recovering the earrings set with gems, with 16,000 girls, etc.: V, 158, 5353, 5355, 5358.