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.s7.135.1

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Kalmāsha, a serpent. § 47 (Sarpanāmak.): I, 35, 1552 (°Ḉabalu, enumeration). Kalmāshapāda, Saudāsa (also named Mitrasaha), king of Ayodhyā and husband of Madayantī. § 188 (Madayantī): I, 122, 4737 (being himself unable to beget children K. urged Madayantī to go to Vasiṣṭha, who begat Aḉmaka on her, cf. § 225).—§ 224 (Vasiṣṭha): The rājarshi of the race of Ikshvāku Kalmāshapāda (whose sacrifices Viçvāmitra had desired to perform) once when hunting met the viprarshi Ḉaktri, the eldest of Vasiṣṭha's 100 sons, and ordered him to stand out of his way, and as Ḉaktri did not yield K. struck him with his whip. Ḉaktri then cursed him, saying: "From this day thou shalt be a rākshasa, eating human flesh." The king began humbly to propitiate the rshi, but Viçvāmitra (between whom and Vasiṣṭha there was a dispute about K., whom they both wanted as their yājya) passed before them without being seen, and caused a rākshasa named Kiṅkara to enter the king. Viçvāmitra then went away. At this time a hungry brahman beheld in the wood K., who was terribly afflicted by the rākshasa, and asked the king for some food with meat. K. asked him to stay there for a moment, and having roved for some time at pleasure at last entered his inner apartments. When waking at midnight and remembering his promise, he summoned his cook, and as the cook did not find any meat K.