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.s6.185
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.s6.185
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*Jaleçaya* = *Çiva* (1000 names²). *Jaleçvara*¹ = *Varuṇa*, q.v. *Jaleçvara*² = *Çiva* (1000 names¹). *Jalelā*, a mātṛ. § 615u (*Skanda*): IX, 46θ, 2634. *Jaleyu*, a son of *Raudrāçva*. § 150 (*Pūruvaṃç.*): I, 94, 3700 (sixth son of *Raudrāçva*). *Jalodbhava* = *Çiva* (1000 names²). *Jālya* = *Çiva* (1000 names¹). *Jamadagni*, a rshi, the son of *Rcīka* and *Satyavatī* and the father of *Rāma*¹ (*Paraçu-Rāma*). § 122 (*Amçāvat.*): I, 66, 2611 (son of *Rcīka*), 2612 (father of four sons, among whom *Rāma* was the youngest), 2613 (the eldest of the 100 sons of *Aurva*, i.e. *Rcīka*).—§ 191 (*Arjuna*): I, 123, 4807 (one of the seven rshis (?) present at the birth of *Arjuna*).—§ 270 (Brahmasabhāv.): II, 11, 440 (in the palace of Brahmán).—§ 377 (Dhaumyatīrthak.): III, 88, 8337 (redi Cūrpārake tāta J°er mahātmanaḥ | vamya Pāṣāṇatīrthā ca Puṇyacandrā ca); 90, 8387 (performed sacrifices at Palāçaka), 8390.—§ 395: At this time (cf. Arjuna Kārtavīrya, § 394), while Gādhi, the king of Kānyakubja, was dwelling in the wood, there was born to him a beautiful daughter, Satyavatī, whom Reīka Bhārgava asked in marriage. Gādhi said that, according to a family custom, the bridegroom must give a dowry of 1,000 brown steeds with a single sable ear each (so PCR. translates ekataḥ çyāmakarṇānām, cf. V, 3740, and Gālavacarita).
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Reīka obtained them from Varuṇa (the spot where the horses appeared was thence named Açvatīrtha) and married Satyavatī in Kānyakubja on the Gaṅgā, the very gods being companions of the bridegroom (janyāḥ). Then his father Bhṛgu came to see him and his wife, and being pleased with Satyavatī, granted her the boon that a son should be born to herself and to her mother, telling her that during their season they should embrace, her mother an açvattha tree and herself an udumbara tree, and eat two pots of rice and milk (caru) which he had prepared, having ransacked the whole universe. Then Bhṛgu disappeared. They, however, made an interchange both of the pots and of the trees which they embraced. Knowing this by his divine knowledge, Bhṛgu came once more and told Satyavatī that she had been deluded by her mother, and that therefore she would give birth to a brahman of kṣatriya character (kṣatravṛttiḥ) and her mother to a kṣatriya of brahman character (brāhmaṇācāraḥ). At her repeated entreaties, however, he granted her that not her son but her grandson should be of that description. The son of Satyavatī was J., who excelled many ṛṣis in Vedic lore (Vedādhyayanena), and to whom the whole Dhanurveda appeared spontaneously (pratyabhāt), and likewise the four kinds of weapon (astrāṇi): III, 115, 10167.—§ 396: J. devoted himself to the study of the Veda and to penances. He married Reṇukā, the daughter of king Prasenajit, and lived with her in his hermitage practising austerities.
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She gave birth to five sons, of whom Rāma was the youngest. Once when Reṇukā had been filled with desire, seeing the Mārtīkāvata king Citraratha bathing, together with his wife, J. ordered his sons Rumanvat (the eldest), Saṣeṇa, Vasu, and Viçvāvasu to kill their mother, but as they refused to do so he cursed them, so that they lost their senses and behaved like beasts and birds. Then he ordered Rāma to do it, and he immediately severed her head with an axe, and then prevailed upon J. to grant him that Reṇukā might be restored to life and not remember that she had been slain, that he himself might not be affected by this sin, that his brothers might recover their former state, and that he himself might be unrivalled on the field of battle and obtain a long life: III, 116, 10183, 10185, 10188.—§ 397: Once when the sons of J. had gone out, Arjuna Kārtavīrya, the lord of the conatry near the seashore (Anūpapatiḥ), came to the hermitage, and, though he was praised by Reṇukā, he carried away the calf of the homadhenu and pulled down the trees. J. told this to Rāma, who then rushed towards Arjuna and cut down his 1,000 arms with his arrows and at last killed him. Then the sons of Arjuna came while Rāma was away, and with their arrows killed J., who did not fight, but repeatedly shouted the name of Rāma.
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When they had gone away, Rāma returned to the hermitage: III, 116, 10196, 10197.—§ 602 (Droṇavadhap.): VII, 190v, 8727.—§ 606b (Paraçu-Rāma): VIII, 34, 1583 (Bhārgavāṇāṃ kule jātaḥ, father of Paraçu-Rāma).—§ 638b (Rāmop.):