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.s4.38.3

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Rāvaṇa soliciting immortality from the gods; Vṛtra incurring the enmity of Çakra; Vaitaraṇī filled with the bodies of persons condemned to hell . . .; reaching this region the sun drops sweet water (i.e. the beginning of the rainy season, Nil.), and thence, proceeding again to the Vāsiṣṭha direction (Vāsiṣṭhīm kāṣṭhām = the quarter of the seven Rṣis, i.e. the North, Nil.), once more drops dew (himam); there is Garuḍa obtaining for food an enormous elephant and tortoise; tho great Rṣi Cakradhanus' as Kapila who burned Sagara's sons); the perfect (siddhāḥ) brahmans, named Çivāḥ, who fully had mastered the Vedas, here obtained liberation (mokṣa); here is Bhogavatī, ruled by Vāsuki, Takṣaka, and Airāvata. Those that have to journey hither encounter a thick gloom, so that it cannot be penetrated by either the Sun or by Agni; "even thou shalt have to pass this road" (V, 109). Garuḍa mentioned the remarkable subjects and occurrences of the West: Varuṇa's origin; his instalment by Kaçyapa; the Moon, quaffing all the six juices of Varuṇa, becomes young again in the beginning of the bright fortnight; the Daityas being routed and bound fast by Vāyu; the mountain Asta; Night and Sleep; Çakra beholding the goddess (devīm) Diti asleep, and cutting off her foetus, whence sprang the Maruts; the roots of Himavat stretching towards the eternal Mandara (sunk in the Ocean, Nil.), the end of which is not to be reached by journeying for even 1,000 years;