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.s6.264

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Jaratkaru¹, a ṛṣi, husband of Jaratkāru and father of Āstīka. § 26 (cf. Āstīkap.): Śauti said: The ascetic J., when going about and practising religious austerities, one day saw his ancestors, the Yāyāvaras, hanging, heads down, in a great hole by a rope of viraṇa fibres, which was eaten into on all sides by a rat; he was told that it was because he had no offspring. He then promised to marry, if he might get a wife of the same name as his own, and who would be given to him in charity (I, 13). At last he married Jaratkāru, the sister of Vāsuki, the king of serpents (I, 14), who intended by this marriage to neutralize the curse inflicted on the serpents by their mother (Kadrū, q.v.). Having begotten Āstīka, J. ascended to heaven with his ancestors (I, 15): I, 13, 1029 (Yāyāvarāṇāṃ pravaraḥ), 1034, 1037, (1041), 1041, 1045; 14, 1054, 1055, 1056; 15, 1067, 1068. —§ 49 (Vāsuki): I, 38, 1633, 1634, 1635 (it had been destined by Brahmán that J. should marry Vāsuki's sister Jaratkāru and beget Āstīka on her); 39, 1650, 1653, 1654. —§ 50 (cf. Āstīkap.): Etymology of the name J. (jareti kṣayam āhur vai, daruṇaṃ kāruṣamjñitam | çarīraṃ kāru tasyāsit tat sa dhīmān chanaiḥ çanaiḥ | kṣapayām āsa tīvreṇa tapasā ... Vāsuker bhaginī tathā): I, 40, 1655, 1656.—§ 51 (Parīkṣit): I, 40, 1661 (ṛṣim).—§ 53 (cf. Āstīkap.): The story of J. repeated (cf. § 28) and somewhat enlarged: I, 45, 1813, 1831 (Veda-Vedāṅgapāragaḥ), 1839, 1843; 46, 1846, (1847), 1848, (1850), 1864; 47, 1869 (ṛṣim), 1872, 1875.—§ 54 (cf. Āstīkap.): One day J., sleeping on the lap of his wife when the sun was setting, was awakened by her, lest the twilight should pass away without his prayers being said. J. felt insulted, as he believed that the sun had no power to set in the usual time if he was asleep. He therefore left her and again began to practise austerities: I, 47, 1882, 1891, 1897, 1901, 1911.—§ 60 (Sarpasattra): I, 53, 2064; 54, 2079.—§ 68 (Āstīka): I, 58, 2189 (yo ’juṇa jātaḥ Jaratkārau, i.e. Āstīka).—§ 565 (Gālavacarita): V, 117, 3975 (reme . . . yathā . . . ’jur Jaratkārrām).