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.s7.939.1

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Kurukṣetra ("the country of the Kurus"). § 12 (Paushyap.): I, 3, 661 (Janamejaya performed a sacrifice at K.).—§ 17 (Uttaṅka): I, 3, 802, 803 (Takṣaka lived in K. in Ikṣumatī).—§ 154 (Pūruv.): I, 95, 3739 (°m sa—i.e. Kuru—tapasā puṇyam cakre mahātāpaḥ).—§ 166 (Citrāṅgadop.): I, 101, 4074 (in K. Citrāṅgada fought with the Gandharva of the same name).—§ 173 (Pāṇḍurājyābhiṣeka): I, 109, 4337 (Kurujāṅgalam Kuravo K°n).—§ 246 (Sundopasundop.): I, 210, 7678 (Sunda and Upasunda took up their abode in K.).—§ 258 (Khāṇḍavadahanap.): I, 227, 8236 (Takṣaka had gone from Khāṇḍava to K.); 228, 8300 (do.).—§ 312 (Āraṇyakap.): III, 5, 240 (the Pāṇḍavas went from the bank of the Gaṅgā to K.).—§ 361 (cf. Tīrthayātrāp.): At the sight of K. (Brahmakṣetra, v. 5076) all creatures are freed from sin, as also he who constantly says "I will live in K." has his sins destroyed and goes to *Brahmaloka*; the mere dust of K. leads even a sinful man to bliss (*paramāṃ gatim*); it lies to the south of the Sarasvatī and to the north of the Dṛṣadvatī; there one should reside for a mouth on the Sarasvatī, where the gods headed by Brahmān, the ṛṣis, the Siddhas, the Cāraṇas, the Gandharvas, the Apsarases, the Yakṣas, and the Pannagas repair to the highly sacred *Brahmakṣetra*; a visit there ensures the merit of the *rājasūya* and the horse-sacrifice: III, 83, 5071, 5072, 5073, 5077, 5078.—§ 362 (Tīrthayātrāp.): III, 83, 5094 (°sya tad dvāram, sc.