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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.s9.296.4

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.s9.296.4

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towards the east there are many small mountains; M. measures 11,000 yojanas. The men there are of the complexion of gold; they have fallen from the Brahmaloka and are good, and given to severe ascetic austerities and sexual abstinence (ardharetasaḥ; in order to protect the creatures they enter the sun; heated with the sun's rays for 56,000 years, they then enter the lunar disc: VI, 7, 281, 282.—§ 782g (*Guruçishyasamp.*): XIV, 43*q*, 1174. Mamatā, the wife of Utathya. § 170 (*Dīrghatamas*): I, 104, 4179, 4180, 4188 (*mother of Dīrghatamas, q.v.*). māmsa, a name of a caste (?): XIII, 2584. Mānada¹, son of Dhrshtadyumna. § 589 (*Dronābhishekap.*): VII, 10*x*, 358. Mānada² = Vishnu (1000 names). Manahsuparna = Sūrya (the Snn): III, 155. Manas (“mind,” personif.). § 270 (*Brahmasabhāv.*): II, 11, 438 (*in the palace of Brahmán*). Mānasa¹, name of two serpents. § 63 (*Sarpasattra*): I, 57, 2146 (*of Vāsuki's race*).—§ 67 (do.): I, 57, 2157 (*of Dhrtarāshtra's race*). Mānasa², a sacred lake, the present Manasarovara (or Mansaraur). § 279 (*Arjuna*): II, 28, 1041 (*sara uttamam, in the region Hātaka*), 1042 (*saraḥ*).—§ 410 (*Plakshāvatara-panag.*): III, 130, 10547 (*°sya dvāram*).—§ 587 (*Bhīshma-vadhap.*): VI, 119, 5665 (*hamsaḥ . . . M°aukasaḥ*).—§ 607 (*Hamsakākīyop.*): VIII, 41, 1894 (do.).—§ 608 (*Karnap.*): VIII, 60, 3048 (*°ād etya hamsair Gāngēva*).—§ 652b (*Indrota-Pārikshitiya*): XII, 152, 5647 (*PCR.