[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s5.37 # 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.s5.37 An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s5.37 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5.37) Hamsa¹ ("the swan," also a name of the supreme soul, as becoming the individual soul): I, 2431 (\*Nārāyaṇam\*, identif. with Kṛṣṇa); XII, 1505 (= Kṛṣṇa), 1605 (do.), 8755, 8766 (\*°tvam\*, etymology), 8767, 10993 (\*Sādhyānām iha samvādam h°sya\*), 10994 (\*Prajāpati\* assumed the shape of a golden swan, (10998), (11031), (11033), (11035), ††12864 (= Mahāpuruṣa), 12967 (the first avatāra of Viṣṇu); XIII, 6970 (= Viṣṇu, 1000 names). - [Previous: c5.s5.36](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5.36) - [Next: c5.s5.38](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5.38) - [Up: c5.s5](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5.37](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s5.37) · Pramāṇa