[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.s6.185.2 # 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.s6.185.2 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.s6.185.2 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s6.185.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185.2) 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. - [Previous: c5.s6.185.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185.1) - [Next: c5.s6.185.3](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185.3) - [Up: c5.s6.185](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185.2](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s6.185.2) · Pramāṇa