[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s3.64 # 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.s3.64 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.s3.64 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s3.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3.64) \[Dakṣha-yajña - vināça(ḥ)\] (“the destruction of Daksha’s sacrifice”). § 695b (Mokshadh.): Vaiçampāyana(!) said: In days of yore Daksha made arrangements for performing a sacrifice on the top of \*Himavat\* in that sacred region inhabited by R. and Si., and Aps., where the \*Gaṅgā\* issues out of the mountains. The gods, etc. (\*a\*), came there. R. \*Dadhīca\* in wrath and grief said that this was no sacrifice, since \*Rudra\* (Çiva) was not adored in it, etc.; he, the great \*yogin\*, saw into the future; he beheld Çiva seated with \*Nārada\* and \*Umā\*. Daksha said he knew the eleven \*Rudras\* with lances and matted locks, but he did not know who this \*Maheçvara\* was. Daksha said that he would perform the sacrifice unto Vishnu. \*Umā\* felt grief. \*Çiva\* said that it is to him as the Lord of Sacrifices that the chanters utter their praises in sacrifices, etc. (\*β\*). Then he created from his mouth a terrible being (description), and \*Umā\* herself, assuming the terrible form of \*Mahākālī\*, proceeded in the company of that being, that was the living embodiment of \*Çiva’s\* wrath and resembled \*Çiva\* himself, and came to be called \*Virabhadra\*. He then created from the pores of his body a large number of spirit-chiefs named \*Raumyas\*. These \*Rudras\* attacked the sacrifice (description; R., D., and men looked pale) and began to set fire to everything, and tore off the head of the sacrifice. D. and \*Brahmān\* and Daksha, informed by \*Virabhadra\*, hymned \*Çiva\* (\*γ\*), who, asked by Daksha, granted to him the boon that his sacrificial articles should be of use to him. Then Daksha knelt down and uttered his 1008 names (\*v\*. Daksha-prokta-Çiva-sahasranāmastotra). - [Previous: c5.s3.63](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3.63) - [Next: c5.s3.65](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3.65) - [Up: c5.s3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3.64](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s3.64) · Pramāṇa