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.s4.38.4

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Surabhi milking on the shores of the lake with golden lotuses; in the midst of the Ocean the headless trunk of Svarbhānu; the chanting of the Vedas by Suvarṇa-çiras (invisible, and whose hair is eternally yellow); Dhvajavatī, the daughter of the muni Harimedhas, remaining in the air in consequence of Sūrya's injunction, 'stay'; . . . the sources of the rivers; here, in the abode of Varuṇa, are the waters of the three worlds; the abode of Ananta, and of Viṣṇu, and of Pavana (the friend of Agni), and of the Maharṣi Kaçyapa Mārica (V, 110). The North (uttara) has its name from saving (uttāraṇā) from sin; it is also called madhyama, i.e. between the East and the West. None can live there that is unamiable, etc. Garuḍa mentioned its remarkable subjects and places: Badarī, the asylum of Nārāyaṇa, Kṛṣṇa, Jiṣṇu, and Brahmán; Maheçvara with the effulgence of the Yugānta fire; Puruṣa dwelling with Prakṛti, invisible to munis, D. with I., G., Y., and Si., except Nara and Nārāyaṇa; there Viṣṇu appears alone, having 1,000 heads and 1,000 legs; there Candramas (the Moon) was iostalled in the sovereignty over the brahmans; Mahādeva receiving Gaṅgā on his head; Devī practising austerities for obtaining Maheçvara; Kāma; the wrath (of Çiva, PCR.); here took place Kubera's instalment, on the breast of Kailāsa, in the sovereignty of Rā., Y., and G.; Cairaratha; here is the asylum of the Vaikhānāsas; Mandākinī; Mandara; Saugandhikavana, guarded by Nairṛtas;