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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.s7.135.2

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.s7.135.2

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said: "Feed him with human flesh." The cook then took human flesh from the place where the executioners were, and offered it to the hungry brahman. Seeing with his spiritual power of vision (siddha-cakshushā) what kind of food it was, the brahman in anger said that the king himself should take a fancy to such food and wander over all the earth alarming all creatures. The curse on the king, being thus repeated a second time, became very strong, and possessed by the rākshasa the king lost all his senses. A while after K., beholding Ḉaktri, in order to revenge himself for the curse slew him and ate him up. And Viçvāmitra caused that rākshasa also to devour the other sons of Vasiṣṭha: I, 176, 6696 (Ikshvākuvamçaḥ), [6720 (Mitrasahaḥ B., C. has mitrasaham as adj. to dvijam)].—§ 225 (Vasiṣṭha): I, 177, 6761, 6768 (Vasiṣṭha delivered K. from the curse of Ḉaktri, and then at the request of K. begat Aḉmaka on Madayantī, the queen of K.).—§ 228 (Aurvop.): I, 181, 6881 (attained to heaven).—§ 229 (Vasiṣṭhop.): I, 182, 6888, 6904 (rājarshi, it is related why K. caused Vasiṣṭha to beget a son on his wife).—[§ 480 (Pativratop., Brāhmaṇavyādhasamv.): III, 208, 13817 (Saudāsena, all to § 224)].—§ 607 (Karṇap.): VIII, 45, 2092 (Rākshasa, a sentence of his is quoted; read with B. K°aḥ sarasi, instead of K°asarasi).—[§ 638b (Rāmopākhyāna): XII, 49, 1792 (dāyadaḥ Saudāsasya . . . Sarvakarmā, had been protected by Parāçara)].—[§ 723 (Ānuṣāsanik.): XIII, 6a, 326 (Koçalādhipa . . .