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.s6.185.3
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.s6.185.3
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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.