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.s3.407.3

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prakāçamaithuna, Nil.) from Saurabheya (i.e. son of the Kāmadhenu, Nil.) began to practise it. He therefore was excluded by the ṛṣis from the asylum, and accosted in harsh words by his wife, who said that she would no more support him and his children. Dīrghatamas then established the rule that from that day every woman should have to adhere to one husband for life, whether he were dead or alive, etc. She then caused her sons to tie him on a raft and throw him into the Gaṅgā. Drifting along, he passed through the territories of many kings, until he was taken up by king Bali, who wanted him to raise up offspring. But Bali's queen Sudeṣṇā, who saw that he was blind, sent a Çūdra woman in her stead, who was her nurse, with whom the ṛṣi begat eleven sons, Kakṣivat, etc. As these sons were his own and not Bali's, Bali sent Sudeṣṇā to him, and Dīrghatamas, after merely touching her person, told her: "Thou shalt have five children named Aṅga, Vaṅga, Kaliṅga, Puṇḍra, and Suhma." Their dominions have come to be called after their names: I, 104, 4192, 4198, (4202), 4218.—§ 266 (Çakrasabhav.): II, 7, 293 (in the palace of Indra).—§ 717b (Nārāyaṇīya): XII, 342, 13182 (originally he, on account of his blindness, was called D., but when he had been cured by invoking Nārāyaṇa as Keçava, he was called Gotama).—§ 775 (Ānuçāsanik.): XIII, 166ε, 7668 (among the ṛṣis of the west). Cf. Autathya (see Additions), Gotama, Utathyaputra. Dīrghaveṇu, pl. (°avaḥ), a people.