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.s3.571

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Ekalavya, a Niṣāda prince. § 130 (*Amçāvat.*): I, 67, 2699 (among the incarnations from the Krodhavaçagaṇa).—§ 204: Among the kings and princes who flocked to Droṇa by thousands to learn the *Dhanurveda* was *E.*, the son of the Niṣāda king *Hiraṇyadhanus*. Not admitted, because he was a *Naiṣādi*, he in the forest practised weapons before a clay image of Droṇa and became very skilled in shooting. One day when the sporting dog of the princes came upon him he shot seven arrows into its mouth, and thus pierced the dog came back to the Pāṇḍavas, who highly admired the precision of the archer. In order that he might not surpass *Arjuna*, Droṇa took from *E.* the thumb of his right hand as his tutorial fee: I, 132, 5241 (*Niṣādarājasya Hiraṇdhanuṣaḥ sutaḥ*), (5255), 5257, 5261, 5262, 5264, 5265, (5265), 5266.—§ 289 (*Arghāharaṇap.*): II, 37, 1351.—§ 296 (*Dyūtap.*): II, 53, 1915 (among the kings who waited upon Yudhishṭhira at the rājasūya).—§ 554 (*Sainyodyogap.*): V, 47, 80 (among the kings to whom the Pāṇḍavas ought to send messengers).—§ 561c (*Kṛṣṇa Vāsudeva*): V, 48, 1884 (*ayam sma yuddhe manyate 'nyair ajeyam tam Ekalavyam nāma Niṣādarājam | vegeneta (B. °naiva) çailam abhihatya Jambhaḥ çete sa Kṛṣṇena hataḥ parāsuḥ*. The text is not clear, but seems to indicate that *E.* has been slain by Kṛṣṇa).—§ 600 (*Ghaṭotkacavadhap.*): VII, 180, †8210 (*Niṣādaḥ*, had been slain [by Kṛṣṇa?]); 18188, 8231 (all. to § 204; *E°m hi sāṅguṣṭham açaṅktā deva-Dānavaḥ | sa-Rākṣasoragaḥ, Pārtha, vijetum yudhi karhicit*).—§ 785 (*Anugītāp.*): XIV, 83, 2472 (*Niṣādarājño viṣayam*).—§ 793 (*Mausalap.*): XVI, 6, 159 (*Naiṣādim*, had been slain by Kṛṣṇa). Cf. Naiṣādi, Niṣāda, Niṣādarāja.