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.s4.143

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Gaṅgādvāra, name of the place where the Gaṅgā enters the plains. § 162 (Ċāntanūp.): I, 97, 3865 (there Pratīpa practised austerities).—§ 200 (Droṇa): I, 130, 5102 (the abode of Bharadvāja).—§ 217 (Caritarathap.): I, 166, 6328 (do.).—§ 248 (Arjunavanavāsap.): I, 214, 7781, 7785 (visited by Arjuna on his tīrthayātrā, 7810.—§ 356 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 81, 4034 (*devī-Gandharvasevite*, a tīrtha).—§ 370 (do.): III, 84, 8005 (a tīrtha).—§ 377 (Dhaumyatīrthak.): III, 89, 8368 (in the west!); 90, 8392 (*śailam bibheda tarasā Gaṅgā G°m*, in the north).—§ 382 (Agastyop.): III, 97, 8568.—§ 419 (Gandhamādanap.): III, 140, 10846.—§ 421 (do.): III, 142, 10907 (*etasyāḥ—i.e. Gaṅgā's-salilam mūrdhnā Vṛṣāṅkaḥ—i.e. Śiva—paryadhārayat G°e*).—§ 434 (Saugandhikāharaṇa): III, 156, 11498.—§ 524 (Jayadrathavimokshaṇap.): III, 272, 15801 (there Jayadratha gratified Śiva).—§ 615i (Saptasārasvata): IX, 38, 2213 (there Dakṣa held a sacrifice).—§ 694b (Jvarotpatti): XII, 284, 10229 (do.).—§ 695b (Dakṣayajñavināça): XII, 285, 10275 (do., *Himavatāḥ pṛṣṭhe*).—§ 733f (Anuçāsanik.): By bathing in G. and Kuçāvarta and Bilvaka on Nīlaparvata, and also in Kanakhala one is freed from his sins and ascends to heaven; by bathing in Apām hradaḥ one obtains the merit of a horse sacrifice. Gaṅgā flows in a northerly direction; by bathing in Triṣṭhāna, which belongs to Mabeçvara, during a month, one becomes able to see the gods): XIII, 25, 1700.—§ 747 (Anuçāsanik.: XIII, 84, 3941 (Bhīṣma performed the çrāddha of Ċāntanu at G.).—§ 775 (do.): XIII, 166a, 7652.—§ 792 (Nāradāgamanap.): XV, 37, 1020; 39, 1091, 1092 (at G. Dhṛtarāṣṭra, Kuntī, and Gāndhārī were burnt to death).