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.s7.912

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Kuntī ("the daughter of the Kuntī king"), daughter of Çūra, adopted by Kuntibhoja, by Sūrya mother of Karṇa, wife of Pāṇḍu, and mother of Yudhishṭhira, Bhīmasena, and Arjuna; her proper name was Pṛthā (P.).—§ 3 (Anukram.): I, 1, 99, 124, 151.—[§ 4 (do.): I, 1, 175 (P.)].—§ 11 (*Parvasaṅgr.*): I, 2, 589 (*gūḍhotpannasya cākhyānaṃ Karṇasya Pṛthayātmanaḥ*), 612 (P.).—§ 131 (cf. *Amçāvataraṇap.*): Çūra (the Yadu, father of Vasudeva) gave his daughter Pṛthā as daughter to Kuntibhoja, the son of his paternal aunt, who was without offspring. Durvāsas, satisfied with her worshipful attentions, gave her a mantra by which she could summon whatever deity she liked and obtain children. Thus by Arka (the Sun) she brought forth in secrecy a child who was born with ear-rings and a coat of mail. Kuntī (= Pṛthā) threw him (i.e. Karṇa (b)) into the water (cf. § 547): I, 67, [2764 (P.)], 2774.—[§ 131b (Karṇa): I, 67, 2783 (*Pṛthāyāḥ prathamaḥ sutaḥ*, i.e. Karṇa)].—§ 132 (Amçāvat.): I, 67, 2794 (incarnation of the goddess Siddhi).—§ 157 (*Pūruvamç.*): I, 95, ††3811 (*Pṛthā, wife of Pāṇḍu*), ††3814 (*putrān utpādayām āsa Dharmād Yudhishṭhiram Mārutād Bhīmasenaṃ Çakrad Arjunam iti*, cf. § 190), ††3816, ††3818, ††3819 (cf. §§ 192 ff.).—[§ 160 (do.): I, 95, †3835 (P., cf. § 785)].—§ 175 (*Karṇasambhava*): I, 111, [4382 (P., daughter of Çūra, adopted by Kuntibhoja)], 4388, (4391), [4397 (*Kuntirājasutām*), 4401 (*Vārshṇeyī*)], 4402 (bore Karṇa from Sūrya, cf. § 547).—§ 176 (*Kuntivivāha*): I, 112, [4412 (*Pṛthā duhitṛ Kuntibhojasya*), 4417 (*Kuntibhojasutā*)], 4418, 4419, 4421, 4424 (married to Pāṇḍu).—§ 177 (*Pāṇḍudigvijaya*): I, 113, 4444.—§ 178 (Pāṇḍu): I, 114, 4474, 4477.—§ 180 (*Gāndhāriputrotpatti*): I, 115, 4484.—§ 184 (do.): I, 119, 4613, 4616 (followed Pāṇḍu to the wood).—§ 185 (do.): I, 120, 4666, 4667, [4671 (P.), 4675 (P.)], 4677.—§ 186 (do.): I, 121, 4680, (4710).—§ 187 (do.): I, 122, 4717.—§ 189 (do.): I, 122, 4746 (told Pāṇḍu of the mantra she had acquired (cf. § 131)).—§ 190 (*Pāṇḍavotpatti*): I, 123, 4759, 4762, 4765, 4770, 4774, 4782, 4787, 4793, 4794, 4799 (requested by Pāṇḍu, she by her mantra summoned Dharma, Vāyu, and Indra, by whom she bore Yudhishṭhira, Bhīmasena, and Arjuna).—§ 191 (Arjuna): I, 123, 4803.—§ 191 (*Pāṇḍavotpatti*): I, 123, 4833 (refused to have more children).—§ 192 (do.): I, 124, 4839, [4840 (*Kuntirājasutā*), 4841 (*Kuntisutām*)], 4844, 4859, [4860 (P.)] (commuucated the mantra to Mādrī).—§ 193 (Pāṇḍu): I, 125, 4880, 4882, (4888), 4893 (*Pāṇḍu's death*).—§ 194 (do.): I, 126, 4921 (Puruhūtād ayam jajñe Kuntyām eva Dhanañjayaḥ).—§ 195 (do.): I, 127, 4934 (*Pāṇḍu and Mādrī are cremated*), 4957.—§ 196 (Vyāsa): I, 128, 4964.—§ 197 (*Bhīmasenarasapāna*): I, [128, 5026 (*Āryakena . . . Pṛthāyā āryakena*)]; 129, 5038, 5043, 5045, 5051.—§ 208 (*Astradarçana*): I, 134, 5326; 135, 5359, [5363 (*Pṛthāraṇisamudbhūtaḥ*, se. Bhīmasena and Arjuna)]; 136, [5381 (*kanyāgarbhaḥ . . . Pṛthāyāḥ, i.e. Karṇa*)], [5405 (*Kuntibhojasutā*)], 5406, [5409 (*Pṛthāyās tanayaḥ kanīyān*, i.e. Arjuna)]; 137, 5441 (rejoiced at seeing Karṇa installed as king of the Aṅgas).—§ 213 (*Jatugṛhap.*): I, 141, 5636, 5638, 5639, 5642; 142, 5686; 144, 5727; 145, 5762; 148, 5823, [5824 (*Mādhavīm*)]; 150, [5867 (*Kuntirājasutām*)], 5869, 5872; 151, 5897, 5905 (*Kuntirājasutām*) (*K. and her sons escaped from the lac house*).—