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.s9.311.3

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And there rise in the sky deep masses of clouds flooding the entire surface of the earth and showering incessantly for twelve years. Then *Svayambhū*, dwelling in the lotus, drinks this terrible wind and goes to sleep.—§ 459: When all has become water, I (i.e. Mārkaṇḍeya) alone wander in affliction and become fatigued, and find no resting-place. Then I behold a vast banyan-tree, and on a couch attached to a bough of that tree a fair boy with yellow robes, with the mark of *Śrīvatsa*. He caused me to enter his body through the mouth, and then I beheld the whole earth with cities and kingdoms, *Gaṅgā*, *Caṭadru*, etc. (enumeration) (*a*), gods, *Sādhyas*, *Rudras*, *Ādityas*, etc. (enumeration) (*β*). At last I was suddenly projected through his open mouth by a gust of wind. Within that very moment I acquired a new sight and beheld myself emancipated (*nirmuktam*). I wished to know his self. Then he spoke to me (III, 188): "The gods even do not know me truly. I am *Nārāyaṇa* (v. 12952: "in ancient times I called the waters *nārā*, and because the waters have ever been my *ayana* [home], therefore I have been called *Nārāyaṇa*"), the eternal and unchangeable source of all things, the Creator and Destroyer of all; I am *Vishṇu*, *Brahmán*, *Cakra*, etc.; in the form of *Qesha* I support this earth, in the form of a boar I raised it when sunk in water; I am the *Vaḍavāvaktra* fire; from my mouth, arms, thighs, and feet sprang *brahmans*, *kshatriyas*, *vaiçyas*, and *çūdras*;