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.s7.744

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Kṛttikā, pl. (°aḥ), the six wives of the seven ṛṣis, name of a constellation (the Pleiads). § 116 (Vasu, pl.): I, 66, 2588 (°abhyupapatte ca Kārttikeya iti smṛtaḥ, sc. Skanda).—§ 370 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 84, 8029 (°Maghayoc caiva tīrtham).—§ 412 (Aṣṭāvakrīya): III, 134, †10663 (ṣaṭ).—§ 488 (Āṅgirasa): III, 217, 14103 (Rādrac ca sambhūto Gaṅgāyām K°āsu ca, sc. Skanda).—§ 501 (Skandopākhyāna): 111, 229, 14429 (Pārakasyendriyam ¢oete K°ābhiḥ kṛtam nage).—§ 502 (Manuṣyagrahak.): III, 230, 14464 (when Svāhā had assumed the forms of the six wives of the saptarṣis and cohabited with Agni, and Skanda was born, their husbands divorced them; then they adopted Skanda, rose to the sky, and became a nakṣatra—tridivam K°ā gatā nakṣatram saptaṛṣibhyam bhāti tad Vahni-daivatam).—§ 509 (Kārttikeyastava): III, 232, 14642 (Svāhā-Mahī-K°ānām, sc. sutaḥ, i.e. Skanda).—§ 574 (Jambūkh.): VI, 3, 96 (ṣg. °ām piḍayams tīkṣṇair nakṣatram, sc. Rāhu, omens).—§ 592 (Samçaptakavadhap.): VII, 20, 809 (°yogayuktena paurṇamāsyām ivendunā).—§ 615u (Skanda): IX, 44, 2459, 2462 (reared Skanda); 46, 2717 (°āṇām, sc. sutaḥ, i.e. Skanda).—§ 656 (Khaḍgotpattik.): XII, 166, 6201 (°ās tasya nakṣatram Aser Agniḥ ca daivatam).—§ 733f (Mahāgaṅgā): XIII, 25, 1708 (°aṅgārake, name of a tīrtha?, at the conjunction of the Kṛttikās and Aṅgāraka, i.e. the planet Mars, BR.).—§ 733k (Vaimānika): XIII, 25, 1711