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.s9.305.2

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became perfect (siddhaḥ), so that wheu he had cut his hand with the pointed blade of a kuça grass, there flew from his wound vegetable juice, at which he began to dance, and the animate and inanimate creation also began to dance together with him. Then the gods, headed by Brahman and the rshis, asked Mahādeva (i.e. Ḉiva) to prevent him from dancing. The god then in the presence of M. pressed his thumb with the tip of his own finger, and from the wound there came ashes, white as snow. Then M. became ashamed and adored Rudra, saying that he was the refuge of the world, including the gods and the Asuras, that he had created the three worlds, and swallows everything at the end of the yuga, that he cannot be fathomed by the gods themselves, that all the gods headed by Brahmán are to be seen in him, etc. At his request Ḉiva said to the Brahmarshi that his asceticism (tapas) should through the grace of Ḉiva increase a thousandfold, that he would dwell with him in the āçrama, and that those who bathe in Saptasārasvata and worship Ḉiva should be able to obtain everything here and hereafter, and go to the Sārasvata loka; then Mahādeva disappeared: III, 83, 5086. — § 615 (Baladevatīrthayātrā): IX, 37, 2185 (siddhaḥ . . . mahāmuniḥ, had performed austerities at Saptasārasvata); 38, 2186. — § 615j (do.): M. had from his youth led the life of a brahmacārin. Once, when performing his ablutions in the river Sarasvatī, he beheld a woman bathing in the river;