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.s6.397

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[Jvarotpatti] (“the origin of fever”). § 694b (Mokṣadh.): Bhīṣma said: In days of yore there was a summit of Meru, named Jyotiṣka, belonging to Savitṛ (Savitram). There Śiva used to sit with Pārvatī, waited upon by D., V., etc. (a). After some time the Prajāpati Dakṣa commenced to perform a sacrifice, whither all the gods headed by Indra, with the permission of Śiva, repaired mounted on their chariots, proceeding to that spot whence the Gaṅgā is said to issue. Pārvatī asked why Śiva did not himself proceed thither, and was told that in days of yore the deities made an arrangement in consequence of which no share was assigned to Śiva of offerings in sacrifices. He was filled with grief. Śiva ordered Nandin to wait there, and summoning all his yoga force, he, with all his terrible followers, came and destroyed that sacrifice (description); it assumed the form of a deer and tried to fly away through the skies, pursued by Śiva with bow and arrow. A drop of sweat fell from his forehead down on the earth; there appeared a terrible fire, whence issued a dreadful being of very short stature, etc. (description), who consumed the embodied form of sacrifice and then attacked D. and R., who fled in all directions. The earth began to tremble, etc. Brahmān appeased Śiva by promising him a share of the sacrificial offerings; the being that had sprung from his sweat should be distributed among all creatures as fever (description of the distribution). Blessing upon the reader (XII, 284).