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.s6.120

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[Indradyumnopākhyāna(m)] ("hietory of Indradyumna"). § 468 (Mārk.): The Pāṇḍavas asked Mārkaṇḍeya "Is there anybody that is older than thou?" He related: "The *rājarshi* Indradyumna, who had fullen from heaven, complained that his fame must have passed away, and asked me if I recognized him; as I did not, he became a horse and carried me to the *Himavat* to the owl *Prāvākarṇa*, who was older than I; the owl we took to the lake *Indradyumna* to the crane *Nāḍijaṅgha*, who was older than the owl; the crane indicated us the tortoise *Akūpāra* in the same lake. *Akūpāra* knew *Indradyumna*, and said that *Indradyumna* had planted the *yūpa* 1,000 times, and that this lake had been excavated by the feet of the cows given away by him to the brahmans. Then a chariot came from heaven, and a celestial voice called *Indradyumna* back to heaven (*vv. 13343-5, three çlokas are cited; v. 13343: 'The report of a virtuous deed reaches heaven and earth; as long as that report is heard, so long is the doer said to be in heaven').* He first brought me and the owl to our respective places, and then went away in that chariot." The Pāṇḍavas praised *Mārkaṇḍeya* for having caused *Indradyumna* to regain his sphere; he said that *Kṛṣṇa* also had raised the *rājarshi* Nrga from hell and cansed him to regain heaven (III, 199).