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.s4.38.2

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here is the tapas of Indra and the gods, all their religious ceremonies; here the Creator (bhagavān Lokabhāvanaḥ) first sang the Vedas; here Sāvitrī was first said by Savitṛ to the reciters of the Vedas (brahmavādiṣu), and here the Yajurveda (yajumṣi) was given by Sūrya; here the Soma juice was first drunk by the gods, etc.; it was here that Varuṇa, repairing to Pātāla, obtained prosperity (priyam); here the birth, growth, and death of the ancient Vasiṣṭha took place; here first grew the hundred branches (śrtayaḥ) of om; here the Munis called dhūmapāḥ first imbibed the smoke of the havis; here the thousand-rayed Sun slays, rising, the wicked and ungrateful men and Asuras; here is the gate of the three worlds and the path to heaven and to felicity (V, 108). Garuḍa mentioned the remarkable subjects in the South (dakṣiṇā diç, so called because Vivasvat gave it away as a dakṣiṇā): Pitṛpakṣas trailokasya; Uṣmapāḥ devāḥ; the Viçvedevas with the Pitṛs, with whom they equally share the sacrifices in all the worlds; the second door of Dharma . . .; the Devarṣis, Pitṛlokarṣis, and Rājarṣis, who dwell here in great happiness . . .; it is the region whither all must repair; . . . there are Nairṛtaḥ to be seen by the sinful; the Gandharvas chanting on Mandara and in the abodes of the viprarṣis; Raivata who, hearing the Sāmans, retired to the woods, leaving wife and friends and kingdom; Sāvarṇi and Yāvakrīta setting a limit to Sūrya (the southern tropical circle, PCR.);