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.s4.141.1

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Gaṅgā¹, the river Ganges. § 11 (Parvasaṅgr.): I, 2, 386.—§ 17 (Uttaṅka): I, 3, 799 (bahūni nāgareṇāmi G°ayās tīra uttare).—§ 71 (Ādivamçāvatāraṇap.): I, 61, 2241.—§ 79 (Bhīṣma): I, 63, 2420 (mother of Bhīṣma).—§ 130 (Amçāvat.): I, 67, 2710 (the eight Vasus were born as sons of Gaṅgā and Çāntanu, cf. § 163).—§ 133 (Duṣhyanta): I, 70, 2872 (Nara-Nārāyaṇasthānam G°ayopacobhitam).—§ 149 (Yayāti): I, 87, 3555 (Yayāti gave to Pūru the whole country G°-Yamunayor madhye).—§ 156 (Pūruvamç.): I, 95, 3800 (Çāntanuḥ khalu Gaṅgām Bhāgīrathīm upayeme | tasyām asya jajñe Devavrato nāma yam āhur Bhīṣmam iti, cf. § 163).—§ 161 (Mahābhiṣop.): I, 96, 3846, v. 7 (only B., one çloka and a half are wanting in C. after v. 3848), (together with Mahābhiṣa G. is cursed to become born among men) (3857), (3859), (3861), 3864 (the Vasus made the arrangement with G. that, having born them to Çāntanu, she should throw them into the water, the eighth child excepted).—§ 162 (Çāntanūp.): I, 97, 3865, 3866 (settled with Pratīpa that she should marry his son, i.e. Çāntanu), 3889.—§ 163 (Bhīṣmotpatti): I, 98, 3903 (Tripathagāminī), 3908, 3913 (Jahnusutā), 3919 (°dattam, i.e. Bhīṣma; Çāntanu married G.; seven of the eight children whom Çāntanu begot with G. she threw into the water, the eighth (Bhīṣma) was saved by Çāntanu).—§ 164 (Apavop.): I, 99, 3923 (Jāhnavī), (3924), 3961 (G.