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.s3.497
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.s3.497
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Durvāsas¹, a ṛshi. § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 473 (*°py upākhyānam*, i.e. § 521).—§ 131 (Kuntī): I, 67, 2768 (taught Kuntī a mantra).—§ 175 (Karṇasambhava): I, 111, 4385, 4393 (do.).—§ 189 (Pāṇḍu): I, 122, 4748 (do.).—§ 190 (Pāṇḍavotpatti): I, 123, 4760 (do., *japyām D°ā dattam purā*).—§ 256 (Agniparābhava): I, 223, 8132 (*b*: D. was a portion of Çiva himself), 8136, 8140 (completed the sacrifice of Çvetaki).—§ 266 (Çakrasabhāv.): II, 7, 293 (among the ṛshis in the palace of Indra).—§ 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 440 (in the palace of Brahmán).—§ 358 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 82, 5006 (had at Varadāna granted a boon to Viṣṇu).—§ 376 (do.): III, 85, 8265 (among the ṛshis who expected Yudhiṣṭhira on his tīrthayātrā).—§ 520 (Mudgala): III, 260, 15415 (*digvasāḥ*), 15425, 15434 (put Mudgala to the test).—§ 521 (Draupadīharaṇap.): III, 262, 15499, (15507), 15515, 15518; 263, 15521, 15548, 15550, (15552), 15563 (*in order to favour Duryodhana, D. and his 10,000 disciples visit the Pāṇḍavas at the time when their supply of food was exhausted. Kṛṣṇa, however, came to the assistance of Draupadī).—§ 569 (Bhagavadyānap.): V, 144ξ, 4903 (all.
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to §§ 131 and 175).—§ 589 (Droṇābhiṣhekap.): VII, 11μ, 390 (had granted boons to Kṛṣṇa).—§ 734 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 26a, 1763 (among the ṛshis who came to see Bhīshma as he lay on his arrow-bed).—§ 770 (do.): XIII, 151λ, 7123.—§ 773δ (Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva): XIII, 159a, †7382.—§ 773ε (Anuçāsanik.): *Kṛṣṇa* said: [Formerly] I put up in my house the brahman *Durvāsas*, who was green and tawny, clad in rags (*cīravāsāḥ*), who had a stick of *Bilva* (*Ægle marmelos*, Liun.), a long beard, who was emaciated, taller than the tallest men; he wandered over all the celestial and human worlds, singing this verse at congregations and in public squares: “Who would cause the brahman *D.* to dwell in his house? He becomes enraged with everyone even at the slightest transgression; he that would give me shelter should not anger me.” As no one took otice of him (read with B. *nādriyate*), I invited him. Sometimes he would eat food sufficient for many thousand persons, sometimes very little, and [sometimes] he would not return home; he would laugh and weep without any visible reason; no one at that time was equal to him in years; [one day] he burnt all the beds and coverlets and all the well-adorned damsels, and then went out; then he asked for rice-milk (*pāyasa*); having previously caused every kind of food and drink to be kept ready, I caused hot rice-milk to be brought; having eaten some, he ordered me to smear my limbs with the remnant, which I did;
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then he smeared *Rukmiṇī*, and causing her to be yoked to a chariot, he, ascending that chariot, set out of my house, striking her with the hook, and proceeded along the high road; the *Dāçarhas* became angry; as *Rukmiṇī* tottered, he struck her [with the whip]; then he leapt down from the chariot and fled towards the south on foot, followed by us. Then he became gratified because I had subdued my anger, and said: “As long as gods and men will continue to entertain a liking for food, so long will everyone among them cherish the same liking for thee; so long as there will be righteous [men] (*puṇyāḥ*) in the worlds, so long will thy fame last; agreeable thou shalt be to all persona; whatever articles of thine have been broken or burnt or destroyed, thou shalt see restored or even better; thou wilt have no fear of death through such parts of thy body as have been smeared [with the rice-milk]; thou ought to have smeared also the soles of thy feet.” I saw my body endued with great beauty and splendour. He also blessed *Rukmiṇī*, saying: “Thou shalt be the foremost of women in fame, etc., free from decrepitude or diseases or loss of complexion, possessed of a fragrant odour, the foremost of *Kṛṣṇa*’s 60,000 wives, and [after death] thou shalt dwell in the same world as *Kṛṣṇa*.” Having recommended me to ba always thus disposed towards the brahmans, he disappeared. I and *Rukmiṇī* took the vow of always satisfying the brahmans.
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Having entered our house, I saw that everything which *D.* had broken or burnt had become renewed. From that day forth I have always worshipped the brahmans: XIII, 160, 7416, 7449.—§ 773 (Anuçāsanik.): XIII, 161, 7458 (*°aḥ prasādāt*).—§ 773δ (Çiva): XIII, 161, 7494 (is a form of Çiva).—§ 789 (Putradarçanap.): XV, 30, 820 (repetition from § 131).—§ 793 (Mausalap.): XVI, 4, †123 (had made Kṛṣṇa invulnerable on the soles of the feet, cf. § 773ε). Cf. Atreya (XVI, †124).