Selective index

Note: This index provides book, chapter and verse numbers.

Abhayada, son of Manasyu, 4.19.1

Abhijit, son of Bhava, 4.14.4

Abhimānin, son of Brahmā, 1.10.14

Abhimanyu, son of Arjuna, 4.4.60; 4.20.13

Abhimanyu, son of Manu, 1.13.5

Ābhīra, dynasty, 4.24.12, 15

Ābhīra, tribesmen, 5.38.14–33, 52, 69

abortion, 4.3.19

hell for, 2.6.8

Absolute, brahman, 5.1.36; 5.18.35, 53; 6.6.1, 3; 6.7.29–95 passim

and Viṣṇu, 6.7.103; 6.8.57

nature of, 1.22.41–63; 3.3.22–31; 4.1.6; 6.4.37–39; 6.5.64–72; 6.7.70

actors, hell for, 2.6.22

Adbhuta, king of gods, 3.2.22

Adhaḥśiras, hell realm, 2.6.4

Adhiratha, son of Satyakarman, 4.18.5

Adhisīmakṛṣṇa, son of Aśvamedhadatta, 4.21.3

Adhomukha, hell realm, 2.6.18

Adhuni, son of Āpa, 1.15.111

adhvaryu, priest, 3.4.12

Adīna, son of Sahadeva, 4.9.14

Aditi, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 4.1.7; 5.2.9

earrings of, 5.29.11, 22, 24, 35

grants boon to Kṛṣṇa, 5.30.25

grants boon to Satyabhāmā, 5.30.27

Aditi, mother of Āditya gods, 1.15.128–131; 3.1.42

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.30.3–23

Āditya, Sun, 4.13.6

as Visṇu, 6.8.22

Ādityas, deities, 3.1.31; 5.4.5; 5.17.8; 5.37.16

arises from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

sons of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125–139

sovereignty over, 1.22.3

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

adulthood, suffering of, 6.5.21–27

Advaita, see philosophy—Advaita

aeon, kalpa, 1.3.28; 1.4.1, 3, 48; 2.7.12, 20; 2.12.3; 3.2.50, 53

deities reborn, 1.15.139

Dhruva’s lifespan, 1.12.93

end of, 1.2.62, 66; 1.19.66; 2.5.19; 6.3.2, 12; 6.4.11

Maitreya asks about, 1.1.8

start of, 1.5.4, 50, 58, 60; 1.8.2

Vedas divided, 3.3.3

afflictions, 1.17.88; 6.5.5–6

Agasti, digestive fire, 3.11.94

Agastya, son of Pulastya, 1.10.9

ageing, premature, 6.1.42–43

ages, cycle of four, 1.3.11–15; 2.2.54; 3.2.46–60; 6.1.4–6; 6.3.11

Āgneyī, wife of Kuru, 1.13.6

Agni, deity, 1.9.33, 68; 5.30.60; 5.38.24

as Abhimānin, son of Brahmā, 1.10.14

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.27

granted sovereignty, 1.22.3

present in guest, 3.11.69

sage, 3.1.18

sanctuary of, 2.2.46

sons of, 5.6.33

star, 2.12.34

supplicates Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

Agni, digestive fire, 3.11.94

Agni Purāṇa, 3.6.22

Agnibāhu, sage, 3.2.44

Agnibāhu, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 9

Āgnīdhra, king of Jambūdvīpa, 2.1.7–17

agnihotra, sacrifice, 6.8.30

Agnimāṭhara, sage, 3.4.18

Agnimitra, son of Puṣpamitra, 4.24.9

Agnis, deities, 5.4.5

Agniṣṭoma, 1.5.53

Agniṣṭut, son of Manu, 1.13.5

Agniṣvāttas, patriarchs, 1.10.18

imbibe nectar from moon, 2.12.11–13

Agnitejas, sage, 3.2.31

Agnivarcas, purāṇic sage, 3.6.17

Agnivarṇa, son of Sudarśana, 4.4.60

Agrahāyana, month, 3.14.13

agriculture, 5.10.28–29

Agrīdhra, sage, 3.2.44

Ahalyā, daughter of Vadhyaśva, 4.19.14

cleansed, 4.4.50

Ahaṃyāti, son of Saṃyāti, 4.19.1

Ahīnagu, son of Devānīka, 4.4.58

Ahīnara, son of Udayana, 4.21.3

Ahirbudhnya, son of Viśvakarman, 1.15.121

Āhuka, son of Punarvasu, 4.14.4; 4.15.22; 5.37.54

Āhukī, daughter of Punarvasu, 4.14.4

Ailīna, son of Apratiratha, 4.19.1

air, 6.4.20–24

Airāvata, elephant, 1.9.7–10, 25; 5.11.5; 5.12.2–25 passim; 5.29.1–34 passim; 5.30.53, 64, 68

granted sovereignty, 1.22.5

rides solar carriage, 2.10.12

airs, vital, 3.11.93

Aja, son of Raghu, 4.4.49

Aja, son of Uttama, 3.1.15

Ājagava, bow, 1.13.40, 69, 82

Ajaikapād, son of Viśvakarman, 1.15.121

Ajaka, son of Sumantu, 4.7.5

Ajamīḍha, son of Hastin, 4.19.8, 13

Ajātaśatru, son of Vidhisāra, 4.24.2

Ajina, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2

Ajita, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.37

Akrodhana, son of Ayutāyu, 4.20.3

Akṛtavraṇa, purāṇic sage, 3.6.17–18

Akrūra, son of Śvaphalaka, 4.13.24–53 passim; 4.14.2; 5.15.9; 5.20.27; 5.37.42

meets Kṛṣṇa and Balarāma, 5.18.1–10

perceives vision of Viṣṇu in Yamunā, 5.18.32–5.19.8

praises Kṛṣṇa–Viṣṇu, 5.17.1–17; 5.18.48–58

sets out for cattle camp, 5.15.23–24

Ākūti, daughter of Svāyaṃbhuva, 1.7.16–17; 3.1.36

Alakā, region, 4.6.30

Alakanandā River, 2.2.33, 35; 2.8.113–114

Alambuṣā, apsaras, 4.1.34

Alarka, son of Vatsa, 4.8.8

Amarāvatī, Indra’s city, 1.9.25; 4.1.68; 5.23.14

Amarṣa, son of Susandhi, 4.4.60

Amāvasu, son of Kuśa, 4.7.5

Amāvasu, son of Purūravas, 4.7.1

Amāvāsyā, lunar phase, 2.12.8, 13

Ambālikā, daughter of king of Kāśī, 4.20.10

Ambarīṣa, son of Māṃdhātṛ, 4.2.37; 4.3.2

Ambarīṣa, son of Nabhaga, 4.2.5; 4.4.26

Ambaṣṭhas, people, 2.3.18

Ambhogiri, mountain, 2.4.62

Ambikā, daughter of king of Kāśī, 4.20.10

Ambikā, goddess, 5.1.84

Āmbikeya, see Mount Āmbikeya

Amitābhas, deities, 3.1.21; 3.2.15

Amitadhvaja, son of Janaka Dharmadhvaja, 6.6.7

Amitrajit, son of Suvarṇa, 4.22.3

Amṛtā River, 2.4.11

Aṃśa, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.131

Aṃśu

rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

son of Puruhotra, 4.12.17

Aṃśumant, son of Asamañjas, 4.4.5–18

Amūrtaraya, son of Kuśa, 4.7.5

Anādhṛṣṭi, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Anagha, sage, 3.2.31

Anagha, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13

ānaka, drum, 4.14.8

Ānakadundubhi, father of Kṛṣṇa, 4.15.11

Anala, a Vasu, 1.15.110

Anamitra, son of Sumitra, 4.13.6

Ānanda, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.4–5

Ananta, 2.5.14, 23; 2.13.9; 5.18.54

see also Śeṣa

Anapāna, son of Aṅga, 4.18.2

Anaraṇya, son of Saṃbhūta, 4.3.14

anarchy, 1.13.30–32, 66

fear of, 4.5.9

Ānarta, son of Śaryāti, 4.1.42

Anasūyā, wife of Atri, 1.10.8

Anavaratha, son of Madhu, 4.12.17

ancestors, 1.8.23; 2.8.117; 5.23.34; 6.8.52

creation of, 1.5.35

imbibe nectar from moon, 2.11.23; 2.12.11–14

libations for, 3.11.27–30

make complaint, 6.8.35–37

nurtured by sun, 2.11.23

offering for, 3.15.39–56

one day and night for, 6.1.4

path of, 2.8.85–86

prayer for, 3.15.32–37

rituals for, 3.14.1–3.16.20

song of, 3.14.21–31; 3.16.17–20

sovereignty over, 1.22.5

status of, 3.13.29, 35, 38

Andhaka, clan 5.32.21; 5.35.16; 5.37.12, 37

Andhaka, son of Satvata, 4.13.1

Andhaka, son of Vipracitti,1.21.12

Andhaka, Yādava elder, 4.13.39–44

Andhakāraka, mountain range, 2.4.50

Andhakāraka, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Andhakas, 5.35.16; 5.38.60

Andhatāmisra, hell realm, 1.6.41

Andhras, dynasty, 4.24.11, 14

Anenas, son of Āyus, 4.8.2

Anenas, son of Kakutstha, 4.2.20

Anenas, son of Kṣemāri, 4.5.12

Aṅga, son of Kuru, 1.13.6

Aṅga, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.18.1

descendants of, 4.18.1–5

Aṅgada, son of Lakṣmaṇa, 4.4.58

Aṅgiras, sage, 1.10.8; 1.15.136; 4.2.7; 4.6.11

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.44

descendants of, 1.13.44

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5

receives two girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.104

rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

son of Kuru, 1.13.6

Aṅgirases, descendants of Aṅgiras, 4.2.7; 4.3.3

Anila, a Vasu, 1.15.110

animals, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.6.34; 3.6.1–3; 5.2.17; 5.23.34; 6.7.57

as forms of Viṣṇu, 3.17.28

creation of, 1.5.9–11, 48–49, 59

domestic, 1.5.51; 5.30.12; 6.7.65

domestic as Visṇu, 6.8.24

qualities of, 3.17.28

sovereignty over, 1.22.7

wild, 1.5.51–52; 5.23.35; 5.30.12; 6.5.7; 6.7.65

wild as Visṇu, 6.8.24

wild imbued with the Absolute, 1.22.57

see also individual animals

Aniruddha, son of Pradyumna, 4.15.20; 5.18.58; 5.28.7–10, 28; 5.32.6, 23–24; 5.33.5–11, 49–50; 5.37.41

Añjana, son of Kuṇi, 4.5.12

Antardhana, son of Pṛthu, 1.14.1

Antardhi, son of Pṛthu, 1.14.1

Antarikṣa, divides Vedas, 3.3.14

Antarikṣa, son of Kiṃnara, 4.22.3

ants, 1.19.68

Anu, son of Yayāti, 4.10.4, 8, 22; 4.18.1

Anubṛhadratha, son of Śatadhanvan, 4.24.7

Anugraha, creation, 1.5.24

Aṇuha, son of Vibhrāja, 4.19.10

Anuhlāda, son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.15.142

Anumati, daughter of Aṅgiras, 1.10.8

Anurādhā, lunar mansion, 3.14.7

Anuratha, son of Kuruvatsa, 4.12.17

Anuṣṭubh, metre, 1.5.56; 2.8.7

Anutaptā River, 2.4.11

Anuvinda, 4.14.10

Āpa, a Vasu, 1.15.110

Apāṃmūrti, sage, 3.2.27

Aparājita, a Rudra, 1.15.122

apparition, attacks Prahlāda, 1.1.28–34; 1.19.14–25

Apratimaujas, sage, 3.2.27

Apratiratha, son of Rantināra, 4.19.1

Apratiṣṭha, hell realm, 2.6.5

apsarases, 4.1.34; 4.6.32, 39, 41; 4.11.1; 5.23.34; 6.8.14

and Aṣṭāvakra, 5.38.73–84

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.19; 6.8.23

attend Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.9

churned from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.94

creation of, 1.5.58

dance for Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.5

dance for Śrī, 1.9.100

dance for Sun, 2.10.20; 2.11.16

origin of, 1.21.25

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

worship Śeṣa, 2.5.24

see also Alambuṣā; Ghṛtācī; Pramlocā; Urvaśī; Viśvācī

Āptoryāma, sacrifice, 1.5.56

Āpūraṇa, nāga

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.44

rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

Āpyas, deities, 3.1.27

Ārādhita, son of Jayasena, 4.20.3

Āradvant, son of Setu, 4.17.2

Arbuda, kingdom, 4.24.15

location, 6.8.29

Arbudas, people, 2.3.16

archery, 1.14.6; 3.18.58; 4.15.21; 4.19.14; 5.21.21

see also Dhanur Veda

Ārdraka, son of Vasumitra, 4.24.9

Arimardana, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Ariṣṭa, Daitya, 5.1.24; 5.4.2; 5.12.21; 5.14.1–14; 5.15.1; 5.20.35; 5.29.4

Ariṣṭakarman, son of Paṭumant, 4.24.11

Ariṣṭanemi, son of Ṛtujit, 4.5.12

children of, 1.15.134

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.103

rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

Ariṣṭā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.25

Arjuna, son of Pāṇḍu, 4.14.9; 4.20.11; 5.35.28; 5.37.2, 55–58

advent foretold by Indra, 5.12.17–20

defeated by tribesmen, 5.38.20–33

leads women from Dvārakā, 5.38.1–53

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.38.43–53

arjuna, tree, 5.15.2; 5.20.33

Arjuna Kārtavīrya, king, 4.6.4; 4.11.4–9; 4.24.65

arrogance, hell for, 2.6.19

arrow-makers, hell for, 2.6.16

arsonists, hell for, 2.6.23

Artha Śāstra, 3.6.28

Aruṇa, son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, 1.21.18

Aruṇas, community, 2.4.30

Arundhatī, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Āruṇi, sage, 3.2.31

Aruṇoda Lake, 2.2.25

Arvāksrotas creation, 1.5.16–18, 1.6.1

Arvarīvant, sage, 3.1.11

Arvarīvant, son of Pulaha, 1.10.10

Arvarīvant, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.19

Āryā, goddess, 5.1.84

Āryakas, community, 2.4.17

Aryaman, deity, 5.18.56

rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Āryaman, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130

Āryaman, star, 2.12.32

Āṣāḍha, month, 2.10.8

Asamañjas, son of Sagara, 4.4.4

Asaṅga, son of Yuyudhāna, 4.14.1

ascetics, 2.8.92–95; 3.10.15; 3.15.24–25; 5.4.11; 6.6.20

at śrāddha, 3.15.56

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

forest, 1.6.37; 3.9.18–23; 4.2.92

heaven for, 1.6.38

power of, 1.15.12; 4.4.16

unvirtuous conduct of, 6.1.33

worship Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.66–67

see also female—ascetics

Asiknī, female ascetic, wife of Dakṣa, 1.15.89

Asipatravana, hell realm, 1.6.41; 2.6.3, 26

Asita, sage, 4.24.46

Asitoda Lake, 2.2.25

Aśmaka, son of Saudāsa, 4.4.45

etymology of, 4.4.45

Aśmasārin, minister, 4.20.7

Aśokavardhana, son of Bindusāra, 4.24.7

Aṣṭāvakra, brahmin, 5.38.71–82

curses apsarases, 5.38.80–82

grants boon to apsarases, 5.38.76–78

Asti, daughter of Jarāsandha, 5.22.1

astrology, 2.5.26; 3.6.13

astronomers, amateur, hell for, 2.6.18

aśvamedha, 2.8.96; 6.8.28, 34, 54

see also horse-sacrifice

Aśvamedhadatta, son of Śatānīka, 4.21.3

Aśvatara, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.21

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.45–46

rides solar carriage, 2.10.18

Aśvatīrtha, sacred ford, 4.7.9

aśvatthama, tree, 4.6.47

Aśvatthāman, son of Droṇa, 4.19.14; 4.20.13

Āśvin, month, 2.10.11

Aśvins, 4.11.1; 4.14.10; 4.20.11; 5.1.58; 5.17.8; 5.20.92; 5.37.16

arise from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18; 6.8.22

birth of, 3.2.7

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

stars, 2.12.32

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.63

Atala, lower realm, 2.5.2

atharva, incantations, 3.4.12, 14

Atharva Veda, 3.4.9; 6.5.65

branches of, 3.6.8–14

creation of, 1.5.56

Atināman, sage, 3.1.28

Atirātra, sacrifice, 1.5.55

Atirātra, son of Manu, 1.13.5

‘Atitāna’, song, 4.1.46

Atithi, son of Kuśa, 4.4.58

Ativibhūti, son of Khaninetra, 4.1.25

ātman, see self—nature of

atonement, 2.6.36–38, 41; 6.6.33–34

Atri, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18

cause of creation, 1.7.33

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.43

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.24

rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

sage, 1.10.9; 3.1.32; 4.6.5; 4.11.4

Aurva, sage, 4.3.20–25

grants boon, 4.4.2

instructs Sagara, 3.8.3–3.16.20

austerities, 2.3.20; 5.23.2; 6.2.16

of Kaṇḍu, 1.15.11

of Pracetases, 1.14.18–20

unsanctioned, 6.1.40

autumn, description of, 5.6.30–51; 5.10.1–15; 5.13.14–15

Avantī, city, 5.21.19

Avanti, region, 4.24.15

Avantis, people, 4.14.10

Avīci, hell realm, 1.6.41; 2.6.4–5

Avijñātagati, son of Anila, 1.15.114

Avikṣi, son of Karandhama, 4.1.25

Avimukta, sacred site, 5.34.30

avyakta, the Unseen or unmanifest property, 1.2.14; 6.4.35

Avyaya, sage, 3.2.40

ayana, half-year, 1.3.10

Ayātayāma, prayers, 3.2.28

Āyati, daughter of Mount Meru, 1.10.3

Āyāti, son of Nahuṣa, 4.10.1

Ayodhyā, city, 4.4.54

Āyogava, bow, 5.20.14–15

Ayomukha, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4

Āyur Veda, 3.6.28; 4.8.5

Āyus, son of Purūravas, 4.6.41; 4.7.1; 4.8.1

Āyuṣmant, son of Saṃhlāda, 1.21.1

Ayutajit, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Ayutāyu, son of Ārādhita, 4.20.3

Ayutāyu, son of Sindhudvīpa, 4.4.26

Ayutāyu, son of Śrutavant, 4.23.2

Babhru, sage, 3.6.12

Babhru, son of Devāvṛdha, 4.13.3–4

Babhru, son of Druhyu, 4.17.1

Babhru, son of Romapāda, 4.12.16

Babhru, Yādava clansman, 4.13.35; 5.37.8

Babhruvāhana, son of Arjuna, 4.20.12

Badarīka, ashram, 5.37.32

Bāhlīka, son of Pratīpa, 4.20.4; 5.35.27

Bāhlikas, dynasty, 4.24.14

Bāhu, son of Vṛka, 4.3.18–20

Bahugava, son of Sudyu, 4.19.1

Bahulāśva, son of Dhṛti, 4.5.12

Bahuputra, sage, 1.15.135

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.104

Bahuratha, son of Ripuṃjaya, 4.19.13

Bahurūpa, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Balabandhu, son of Raivata, 3.1.23

Balabhadra, see Balarāma

Baladeva, see Balarāma

Balāhaka, Kṛṣṇa’s steed, 4.13.31

Balāhaka, mountain range, 2.4.26

Balāka, sage, 3.4.24

Balākāśva, son of Ajaka, 4.7.5

Balarāma, 4.1.68–73; 4.13.28–47 passim; 5.7.1, 22, 33; 5.8.1–13; 5.15.6, 12; 5.26.5, 6, 8; 5.28.9–28; 5.32.22; 5.33.12–50 passim; 5.37.36

birth foretold, 5.1.73

criticises Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.35–42

curses Kṛṣṇa, 4.13.34

defeats Dvivida, 5.36.1–23

departs the world, 5.37.49–51

description of, 5.17.23–24

destroys Pralamba, 5.9.1–38

drags Yamunā, 5.25.8–14

named, 5.6.9

plays in Vṛndāvana, 5.6.32–51

praised by Kṛṣṇa, 5.9.22–33

returns to cattle camp, 5.24.8–21

slays Rukmin, 5.28.23

son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12, 15

threatens Hastināpura, 5.35.1–38

Bāleya, warriors, 4.18.1

Bālhīkas, 5.35.12

Bali, son of Sutapas, 4.18.1

Bali, son of Virocana, king of gods, 1.21.1; 3.2.18; 5.32.7

assists Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.19.52

Bāṇa, son of Bali, 1.21.2; 5.1.24; 5.32.7–5.33.46 passim

Bandhumant, son of Kevala, 4.1.31

bandits, 5.38.14–88 passim

banyan, tree, 2.4.85

barbarians, 4.3.32; 4.17.2; 4.24.15; 5.23.7

bard, praises Pṛthu, 1.13.52–65

Barhiṣads, patriarchs, 1.10.18

imbibe nectar from moon, 2.12.11–13

Bāṣkala, sage, 3.4.16–17, 25

Bāṣkala, son of Saṃhlāda, 1.21.1

bastards, hell for those who marry, 2.6.22

bathing, as purification, 3.18.42; 6.8.31, 33, 39

Baudhya, sage, 3.4.17–18

beehives, hell for destroyers of, 2.6.24

Bhadrā, goddess, 5.1.84

Bhadrā, wife of Vasudeva, 4.15.11, 13

Bhadrā River, 2.2.33, 37; 2.8.113

Bhadrabāhu, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Bhadracāru, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.1

Bhadradeva, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Bhadrakālī, goddess, 5.1.84

Bhādrapada, month, 2.10.10; 3.14.17; 3.16.19

Bhadraratha, son of Haryaṅga, 4.18.4

Bhadrasena, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Bhadraśreṇya, clan, 4.8.6

Bhadraśreṇya, son of Mahiṣmant, 4.11.4

Bhadrāśva, region, 2.2.23, 39

Bhadrāśva, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 21; 2.2.34, 49

Bhadrāśva, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Bhadravinda, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.3

Bhaga, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.131

rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

bhagavat, etymology of, 6.5.69–80

Bhāgavata, son of Vajramitra, 4.24.9

Bhāgavata Purāṇa, 3.6.21

Bhagīratha, son of Dilīpa, 4.4.25, 26

Bhāgīrathī River, 3.18.57; 4.4.25

Bhāguri, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.42–43

Bhaimarika, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.

Bhajamāna, son of Andhaka, 4.14.3

Bhajamāna, son of Satvata, 4.13.1

Bhajana, son of Satvata, 4.13.1

Bhalandana, son of Nābhāga, 4.1.20

Bhallāṭa, son of Udaksena, 4.19.11

Bhāṇḍīra, banyan tree, 5.9.2,15

Bhānu, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Bhānu, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.1

Bhānumant, son of Sīradhvaja, 4.5.11

Bhānuratha, son of Bṛhadaśva, 4.22.3

Bhānus, sons of Dharma and Bhānu, 1.15.107

Bharadvāja, sage, 3.1.32

etymology of, 4.19.5

rides solar carriage, 2.10.12

son of Bharata, 4.19.3–6

Bhāradvāja, divides Vedas, 3.3.14, 16

Bharata

character of, 2.13.39–47

descendants of, 2.3.1

etymology of, 4.19.1

instructs king of Sauvīra, 2.13.48–2.16.25 passim

nurtures fawn, 2.13.18–32

reborn as deer, 2.13.32–35

Bharata, son of Daśaratha, 4.4.49, 55, 56

Bharata, son of Duṣyanta, 4.19.1–3, 6

Bharata, son of Ṛṣabha, 2.1.27–33

Bharata, son of Tālajaṅgha, 4.11.10

Bhārata, 2.2.35, 49

clan of, 5.12.19

communities of, 2.3.8–9

cycle of four ages in, 2.3.19

mountains of, 2.3.3

peoples of, 2.3.15–18

place for liberation, 2.3.2, 4–5, 25

qualities of, 2.3.20–26

region, 2.1.31–42; 2.2.13, 39; 2.3.1–26

regions of, 2.3.6–8

religious practice in, 2.3.20–23

rivers of, 2.3.10–14

war, 4.4.60

worship of Viṣṇu in, 2.3.21

Bhārga, son of Vainahotra, 4.8.9

Bhārgabhūmi, son of Bhārga, 4.8.9

Bhārgavas, 1.10.5

Bhāsī, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15–16

Bhauma, region, 4.24.15

Bhautya, Manu, 3.2.42

Bhava

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

name of Rudra, 1.8.6

Bhava, son of Viloman, 4.14.4

Bhavanmanyu, son of Vitatha, 4.19.7

Bhāvins, community, 2.4.17

Bhaviṣya Purāṇa, 3.6.22

Bhavya, king of Śākadvīpa, 2.4.59

Bhavya, sage, 3.2.23

Bhavya, son of Dhruva, 1.13.1

Bhavya, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 14

Bhavyas, deities, 3.1.27

Bhīma, a Rudra, 1.8.6

Bhīma, son of Amāvasu, 4.7.2

Bhīma, son of Pāṇḍu, 4.14.9; 4.20.11; 5.35.28; 5.38.33, 91

Bhīmaratha, son of Ketumant, 4.8.6

Bhīmaratha, son of Vikṛti, 4.12.17

Bhīmarathī River, 2.3.12

Bhīmasena, son of Parīkṣit, 4.20.1; 4.21.1

Bhīmasena, son of Ṛkṣa, 4.20.4

Bhīras, people, 2.3.16

Bhīṣma, son of Śāṃtanu, 3.7.8–38; 3.17.7; 4.20.10; 5.35.5, 11, 27, 36; 5.38.16–68 passim

Bhīṣmaka, king of Vidarbha, 5.26.1, 3

Bhojakaṭa, city, 5.28.9

Bhojas, people, 5.1.6

Bhrājiras, deities, 3.2.43

Bhṛgu, sage, 4.7.19

cause of creation, 1.7.33

father of Śrī, 1.8.15

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5

offspring of, 1.10.1–21

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.43–44

rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

sons of, 1.8.14

Bhūmitra, son of Vasudeva, 4.24.11

Bhūri, son of Somadatta, 4.20.10; 5.35.27

Bhūriṣeṇa, son of Brahmasāvarṇi, 3.2.28

Bhūriśravas, son of Somadatta, 4.20.10; 5.35.27

Bhūrloka, realm, 2.7.11, 16

Bhūta, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

bhūta spirits, creation of, 1.5.45

Bhūtarayas, deities, 3.1.21

Bhūtasaṃtāpana, son of Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.21.3

Bhuva, son of Pratiharta, 2.1.36

Bhuvarloka, realm, 2.7.17

Bindumatī, wife of Māṃdhātṛ, 4.2.37

Bindusāra, son of Candragupta, 4.24.7

birds, 1.19.68; 4.11.1; 5.23.34; 5.30.12; 6.5.7; 6.7.64–65

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

creation of, 1.5.47

hell for feeders of, 2.6.21

imbued with the Absolute, 1.22.57

sovereignty over, 1.22.6

see also individual birds

birth

rituals, 3.13.1–4

suffering of, 6.5.14–15

births

Dakṣa’s ambiguous, 1.15.79

unusual, 4.2.8, 30–32; 4.3.20; 4.4.45; 4.5.9–10; 4.6.14; 4.13.40–42; 4.19.3–5, 14; 5.27.7

blinking, origin of, 4.5.1–4.5.9

boar, avatāra, 1.4.8–52; 2.2.49; 5.5.15; 5.17.11; 5.29.23

boon

Aditi grants to Kṛṣṇa, 5.30.25

Aditi grants to Satyabhāmā, 5.30.27

Aṣṭāvakra grants to apsarases, 5.38.76–78

Aurva grants, 4.4.2

Brahmā grants to Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.2

gandharvas grant to Purūravas, 4.6.44

gods grant to Khaṭvāṅga, 4.4.47

gods grant to Mucukunda, 5.23.22

herdsmen receive, 5.10.49

Kapila grants, 4.4.19

Kaśyapa grants to Diti, 1.21.30–34

Kṛṣṇa grants to garland-maker, 5.19.17–29

nāgas grant to Narmadā, 4.3.9

Nārāyaṇa grants to Dhanvantari, 4.8.4–5

Pulastya grants to Parāśara, 6.8.49

Śiva grants to Gārgya, 5.23.3

Śiva offers to prince, 5.34.30–32

Śrī grants to gods, 1.9.131–37

Sun grants to Yājñavalkya, 3.5.26–27

Viṣṇu grants to Arjuna Kārtavīrya, 4.11.4

Viṣṇu grants to Dhruva, 1.12.42–43, 76–77

Viṣṇu grants to Pracetases, 1.14.47–49

Viṣṇu grants to Prahlāda, 1.20.17–28

Viṣṇu grants to widow, 1.15.60–71

Brahmā, 1.2.8; 1.9.68; 1.15.73–75; 2.13.44; 3.7.15; 3.10.7; 3.11.63; 4.1.3–7, 45–70; 4.6.5–6, 9, 16; 4.9.2; 4.15.16; 5.1.13; 5.7.63–64; 5.17.8; 5.18.28; 5.30.10; 5.33.17; 6.7.51, 67

abode of, 2.4.85

addresses Earth, 5.1.29–33

addresses Viṣṇu, 5.1.55–59

appoints guardians of directions, 1.22.8–13

arises from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.22

as form of Viṣṇu, 3.17.16

as grandsire, 1.21.29

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.29

as Ṛg Veda, 2.11.13

as Viṣṇu, 6.7.56; 6.8.22

as Viṣṇu’s energy, 2.11.12–13

assigns duties, 3.8.30

blinded by delusion, 5.30.17

burns world, 1.7.8–9

city of, 22.30–32

conducts sacrifice, 1.13.52; 1.21.27

consecrates Pṛthu, 1.13.44

counsels gods, 1.9.34

creates Rudra, 1.8.2

creates Seven Sages, 1.21.28

creates world, 1.3.25; 1.4.1–7; 6.1.7

creative energy of, 1.3.2; 1.22.33

curses rākṣasas, 2.8.50

day and night for, 6.1.4

day of, 1.3.15–16, 22; 6.3.11

demands progeny, 1.14.9–11

distributes sovereignties, 1.22.1–13

divides Vedas, 3.3.11

food offering for, 3.11.48

gives rise to Rudra, 1.7.10

grants boon to Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.2

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

libation for, 3.11.44

lifespan of, 1.3.4–6, 26

mind-born sons of, 1.7.1–8; 2.7.13

names creatures, 1.5.63–64

names Rudra, 1.8.3–7

orders Dakṣa to propagate, 1.15.85

originator of Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.42

palace of, 2.8.19

praises Viṣṇu, 1.9.38–56; 5.1.34–51

present in guest, 3.11.69

realm of, 1.6.37; 2.7.15; 3.9.33; 4.2.1

urges Vyāsa to divide Vedas, 3.4.7

worshipped, 2.4.85

worships Viṣṇu, 1.14.17

year of, 1.3.26

Brahmabali, sage, 3.6.10

brahmacārin, student, 3.10.14; 3.11.66; 6.2.16

duties of, 3.9.1–7

heaven for, 1.6.36

Brahmadatta, son of Aṇuha, 4.19.11

Brahmaloka, realm, 6.4.5

Brāhma-muhūrta, ‘hour of Brahmā’, 3.11.5

brahman, Absolute, etymology, 3.3.22

see also Absolute—brahman

Brahmāṇḍa Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Brahmāpeta, 2.10.16

Brahma Purāṇa, 3.6.20–21

Brahmasāvarṇi, future Manu, 3.2.25, 28

Brahmāstra weapon, 4.20.13

Brahmavaivarta Purāṇa, 3.6.22

brahmin, from Kaliṅga, 3.7.9–36

brahminicide, 2.12.10; 2.8.96; 3.5.4, 14; 4.13.36; 5.38.37

hell for, 2.6.9

brahmins, 3.4.12, 14, 3.8.12; 4.2.7; 4.6.6; 4.24.15, 35; 6.1.23

as Visṇu, 6.8.24

belittled in Buddhism, 3.18.25

creation of, 1.6.3, 6

duties of, 3.8.22–25, 38

food for, 3.15.29–30

in form of ancestors, 3.15.31–37

virtues of, 4.7.16

see also communities

breath, control of, 1.22.43; 2.8.110; 3.5.15; 6.7.41, 45

Bṛhadaśva, son of Sahadeva, 4.22.3

Bṛhadaśva, son of Śrāvasta, 4.2.21

Bṛhadbala, son of Viśrutavant, 4.4.60

descendants of, 4.22.3

Bṛhaddhanu, son of Bṛhadiṣu, 4.19.9

Bṛhadbhānu, son of Bṛhatkarman, 4.18.4

Bṛhadiṣu, son of Ajamīḍha, 4.19.9

Bṛhadiṣu, son of Haryaśva, 4.19.13

Bṛhadrāja, son of Amitrajit, 4.22.3

Bṛhadratha, descendants of, 4.23.1

Bṛhadratha, son of Bhadraratha, 4.18.4

Bṛhadratha, son of Tigma, 4.21.3

Bṛhadratha, son of Vasu, 4.19.14

Bṛhadrathantara, lights the world, 2.11.10

Bṛhaduktha, son of Devarāta, 4.5.11

Bṛhanmanas, son of Bṛhadbhānu, 4.18.4

Bṛhaspati, 1.9.59; 4.6.8–21; 4.9.11–13; 4.19.3

divides Vedas, 3.3.12

Bṛhatī, metre, 2.8.7

Bṛhatī, wife of Ripu, 1.13.2

Bṛhatkarman, son of Bṛhaddhanu, 4.19.9

Bṛhatkarman, son of Bṛhadratha, 4.18.4

Bṛhatkarman, son of Sukṣatra, 4.23.2

Bṛhatkṣaṇa, son of Bṛhadbala, 4.22.1

Bṛhatkṣatra, son of Bhavanmanyu, 4.19.7

Bṛhatsāman, hymn, 1.5.54

bribery, 6.1.19

Buddhist monk, phantom in form of, 3.18.16–25

Budha, son of Moon, 4.1.12–13; 4.6.22

Budha, son of Vegavant, 4.1.31

Budhna, son of Bhautya, 3.2.45

buffaloes, origin of, 1.21.24

butter, 2.15.30; 5.15.22

as offering, 2.14.23; 3.11.24, 85; 3.12.31; 3.16.19; 3.18.26; 4.10.1

Lakṣmī as, 1.8.19

sustains gods, 2.8.106

Urvaśī eats, 4.6.30

Viṣṇu as, 1.12.6

Caidya kings, 4.12.16

Caitra, month, 2.10.4

Caitra, sage, 3.1.18

Caitra, son of Svārociṣa, 3.1.12

Caitraratha, forest, 2.2.24

Caitraratha, region, 4.6.30

Cakora Śātakarṇin, son of Sundara Śātakarṇin, 4.24.11

Cakṣu River, 2.2.33, 36; 2.8.113

Cakṣu, son of Anu, 4.18.1

Cakṣupa, son of Khanitra, 4.1.24

Cakṣus, son of Purujānu, 4.19.13

Cākṣuṣa, Manu, 3.1.6, 26–29, 41

Cākṣuṣa, Manvantara, 1.15.127, 132

Cākṣusa, son of Ripu, 1.13.2

Cākṣuṣas, deities, 3.2.43

camels, origin of, 1.21.17

Campā, city, 4.18.3

Campa, son of Pṛthulākṣa, 4.18.3

Cañcu, son of Harita, 4.3.17

Candanodaka Dundubhi, son of Viloman, 4.14.4

Candra, mountain range, 2.4.7

Cāndra, son of Viśvagaśva, 4.2.20

Candrā River, 2.4.28

Candrabhāga, realm, 4.24.15

Candrabhāga River, 2.3.10

Candragupta, king, 4.24.6

Candraketu, son of Lakṣmaṇa, 4.4.58

Candraśrī, son of Vijaya, 4.24.11

Candrāśva, son of Dhundhumāra, 4.2.23

cannibalism, 4.4.33–35

Cāṇūra, wrestler, 5.15.7, 16; 5.20.17, 29–68 passim

Cāpi, 2.10.12

Caraka priests, 3.5.14

Cāraṇas, divine beings, 2.2.45; 5.2.16

carnivores, origin of, 1.21.23

carriages, sky-going, 1.12.92; 4.4.47; 5.2.14; 5.37.68

Cāru, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.2

Cārudeha, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.1

Cārudeṣṇa, son of Kṛṣṇa, 4.15.20; 5.28.1

Cārugupta, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.1

Cāruhāsinī, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 4.15.19

Cāruka, 5.37.42

Cārumatī, daughter of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.2

Cāruvarman, 5.37.42

Cāruvinda, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.2

Cāryakulyā River, 2.3.13

caste, see community

cats, hell for feeders of, 2.6.21

cattle

consecrate the world, 5.12.14

drown, 5.11.6–12

imbued with the Absolute, 1.22.57

origin of, 1.21.24

sovereignty over, 1.22.6

worshipped, 5.10.40–49

see also cows

cattle-herding, celebrated, 5.10.25–41

Caturaṅga, son of Romapāda, 4.18.3

cāturhotra sacrifice, 3.4.11

Cedi, king of, 5.26.5

Cedi, son of Kaiśika, 4.12.16

celibacy, 2.8.93

see also female—celibacy

Chala, son of Dala, 4.4.58

Chāyā, wife of Sun, 3.2.3–6, 13

chickens, hell for feeders of, 2.6.21

childlessness, antidote for, 1.10.21

circumambulation, 3.13.2; 5.37.47, 59

Citraka, son of Vṛṣṇi, 4.14.2

Citralekhā, apsaras, 5.32.17–24; 5.33.5

Citrāṅgada, gandharva, 4.20.10

Citrāṅgada, son of Śāṃtanu, 4.20.10

Citraratha, son of Dharmaratha, 4.18.2

Citraratha, son of Ruṣaṅku, 4.12.1

Citraratha, son of Uṣṇa, 4.21.3

Citrasena, king, 3.2.41

rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

civilisation, origin of, 1.13.83–85

clothes, 6.1.52

clouds

nature of, 2.9.9.–10

see also Saṃvartakas

cochineal, hell for sale of, 2.6.20

coconuts, 5.8.3–13

commensality, 4.3.15

communal duty, 3.7.20; 3.8.20–40

as form of worship, 3.8.9, 11–12, 19

neglect of, 2.6.32

communities

creation of new, 4.24.15

duties lapse, 6.1.10

mixing of, 4.18.4; 4.24.3

see also brahmins; kṣatriyas; śūdras; vaiśyas

communities, four, 2.3.9; 6.8.15, 17

absence of, 2.4.83

creation of, 1.6

duties and heavens for, 1.6.33–39

further developed, 4.8.9

of Krauñcadvīpa 2.4.52–53

of Kuśadvīpa 2.4.38–39

of Plakṣadvīpa, 2.4.16–17

of Śākadvīpa, 2.4.69

of Śālmaladvīpa, 2.4.29–31

system established, 4.8.3

community, change of, 4.1.18–20; 4.3.14; 4.19.7, 8, 14

conch, 5.30.2, 54

conduct

in crisis, 3.8.37–40

unvirtuous, 3.7.28–31; 3.18.38–52; 6.1.27, 46

virtuous, 3.8.13–19, 35–63; 3.11.1–3.12.45

consciousness, kṣetrajña, 6.7.61–68, 93

constellations, 4.6.6

as Visṇu, 6.8.23

continents, seven, 2.2.5; 2.4.87

cooks, 1.18.1–8

corpse, 3.12.12

corruption, hell for, 2.6.18

cosmic egg, 1.2.53–59; 2.4.95–97; 2.7.22–23, 27; 4.1.6; 5.2.15; 5.7.50; 6.4.31

as Viṣṇu, 6.8.28

cottonwood tree, 2.4.21–32; 5.30.61

cowherd-demon, see Pralamba

cowherding women

lament Kṛṣṇa’s departure, 5.18.13–31

play with Kṛṣṇa, 5.13.1–61

weep for Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.25–32,

cows, 6.1.23; 6.6.13–14

Earth in form of, 1.13.70–95

gift of, 6.8.53

hell for slaughter of, 2.6.8

killed, 4.1.18

see also cattle

creation

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.23, 27; 5.1.20

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.29, 30, 31, 32

classes of, 1.7.40–41

creative energy of, 1.22.33

of world, 1.2.22–69

creepers, 5.30.12

cremation grounds, 3.11.13; 3.12.13

crops, 1.6.21–22

failure of, 6.1.51

crow, king reborn as, 3.18.81

crows, 5.6.27

origin of, 1.21.16

curses, 3.2.5; 4.2.49

Aṣṭāvakra curses apsarases, 5.38.80–84

deer curses Pāṇḍu, 4.20.11

Mitra and Varuṇa curse Urvaśī, 4.6.24

sages curse Yādava boys, 5.37.9

Saudāsa curses water, 4.4.38

Uśanas curses Yayāti, 4.10.5

Vasiṣṭha curses Saudāsa, 4.4.35, 40, 45

Visiṣṭha and Nimi, mutual, 4.5.4

woman curses Saudāsa, 4.4.43, 45

Yayāti curses Yādavas, 5.21.12

Cyavana, 4.1.41

Cyavana, son of Mitrāyu, 4.19.14

Cyavana, son of Suhotra, 4.19.14

cyclical existence, see saṃsāra

Dadhīca, 6.8.43

Daitya kings, 1.17.87

Daityas, 1.19.67; 4.11.1; 5.2.16; 5.29.9; 5.32.20–21; 5.33.24; 5.37.18; 6.7.57; 6.8.14

abandon Vedic path, 3.18.15, 21–35

as Viṣṇu, 3.17.18; 5.1.19; 6.8.23

born on earth, 4.15.23

creation of, 1.5.31

defeat deities, 3.17.9

despair, 1.9.105

flee to Pātāla, 1.9.109

qualities of, 3.17.18

seize nectar, 1.9.106

Daityas and Dānavas, 2.2.47; 4.6.12–16

churn the Ocean of Milk, 1.9.80–109

fight the deities, 1.9.31–33

realms of, 2.5.4–12

sovereignty over, 1.22.4

Dakṣa, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.2.8; 1.7.5; 1.18.22

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.29

bestows daughters, 1.15.76, 102–105

birth foretold by Viṣṇu, 1.15.9–19, 60–71

born from Brahmā’s thumb, 1.15.79; 4.1.7

brings forth divine beings, 1.15.86

brings forth progeny, 1.15.74–75

cause of creation, 1.7.33

curses Nārada, 1.15.101

daughters of, 1.7.19–28; 1.10.21; 1.15.77, 133

enrages Satī, 1.8.12

granted sovereignty, 1.22.4

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

marries Prasūti, 1.7.17

son of Pracetases and Māriṣā, 1.15.73

sons of, 1.15.89

Dakṣasāvarṇi, future Manu, 3.2.20

Dala, son of Pāriyātra, 4.4.58

Dama, son of Nariṣyanta, 4.1.30

Damaghoṣa, Cedi king, 4.14.10, 12

Damins, community, 2.4.38

Dānavas, demons, 1.17.46; 1.21.13; 4.11.1; 5.13.8, 12; 5.33.20

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.19; 6.8.23

dance

Kṛṣṇa with cowherders, 5.13.47–61

recaka and daṇḍapāta, 5.7.46

Daṇḍa, son of Ikṣvaku, 4.2.9

Daṇḍapāṇi, son of Ahīnara, 4.21.3

Dantavakra, demigod, son of Vṛddhaśarman, 4.14.10; 5.26.7

Danu, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.4, 13

darbha-grass, 3.15.21

Darbhaka, son of Ajātaśatru, 4.24.2

Dāruka, Kṛṣṇa’s driver, 5.37.46–60 passim

Dāruṇa, hell realm, 2.6.3

Darva, son of Uśīnara, 4.18.1

Daśaratha, son of Aja, 4.4.49; 4.18.2

Daśaratha, son of Mūlaka, 4.4.47

Daśaratha, son of Navaratha, 4.12.17

Daśaratha, son of Romapāda, 4.18.2

Daśaratha, son of Suyaśas, 4.24.7

Daśārha, son of Nirvṛti, 4.12.17

Dasra, deity, 4.14.10; 5.1.58

Dasyus, people, 4.24.20

Dattātreya, son of Atri, 1.10.8; 4.11.4

Dattoli, son of Pulastya, 1.10.9; 3.1.11

Dāvikorvī, realm, 4.24.15

dawn, creation of, 1.5.38

day

and night, 2.8.27–29, 34–48; 2.8.59–69 passim; 5.30.9; 6.3.9

creation of, 1.5.34

divisions of, 2.8.61–65

death, 5.38.87; 6.5.39–43, 52

how to escape, 3.7.1–39

unusual, 4.5.7

debauchees, hell for, 2.6.25

decadence, 2.24.15–19

deer

brahmin born as, 2.13.13–36

hell for hunters of, 2.6.26

Kṛṣṇa mistaken for, 5.23.38

reborn as brahmin, 2.13.36

defecation, 3.11.9–22; 3.12.27–28

deities, 1.19.67; 2.4.8, 49; 2.6.34; 4.5.7; 4.6.12–16; 5.2.16; 5.13.8, 12; 5.23.34; 5.32.20–21; 6.7.57; 6.8.14, 52

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.31

as Visṇu, 1.22.27; 3.17.17; 6.8.22

ask Kṛṣṇa to return to heaven, 5.37.15–20

churn the Ocean of Milk, 1.9.80–109

cities of, 2.2.31

creation of, 1.5.12–14, 33

defeat Daityas, 1.9.109–110

defeated by Daityas, 3.17.9

household, 3.11.45

imbibe moon, 2.11.22

imbibe nectar, 1.9.108–109

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

libations for 3.11.27–28

neglected, 3.18.43

petition Viṣṇu, 3.17.36–40

praise Balarāma, 5.36.21–22

praise Devakī, 5.2.6–20

praise Viṣṇu, 1.9.57–64, 68–73; 3.17.11–34

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

sanctuary of, 2.2.46

seek refuge in Viṣṇu, 1.12.31–37

shower flowers for Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.6

thirteen, 5.1.12; 5.7.63; 5.13.6; 5.30.52–55

see also gods

demigods, see Daityas; Dānavas

desire, 4.2.78–90; 5.2.11

nature of, 4.10.13–19

destiny, 5.38.31

destruction

four kinds of, 1.7.37–39

universal, sārvakālikī, 1.22.28

see also dissolution

Devabhāga, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Devabhūti, son of Bhāgavata, 4.24.10–11

Devadarśa, sage, 3.6.9–10

Devaka, son of Āhuka, 4.14.5

Devaka, son of Yudhiṣṭhira, 4.20.11

Devakī, daughter of Devaka, mother of Kṛṣṇa, 4.14.5; 4.15.11–16; 5.1.5–11, 64–79; 5.2.1–5.3.2; 5.15.3; 5.18.5; 5.20.28, 39, 80; 5.21.1; 5.3.23–25

as Aditi, 5.2.9

as desire, 5.2.11

as Diti, 5.2.9

as fire, 5.2.9

as heavens, 5.2.12

as knowledge, 5.2.19

as light, 5.2.10, 19

as nectar, 5.2.19

as svāhā and svadhā, 5.2.19

bears Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.1

enters flames, 5.38.4

freed by Kaṃsa, 5.4.14–17

recognises Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.12–13

Devakṣatra, son of Devarāta, 4.12.17

Devakūṭa, mountain range, 2.2.40

Devala, son of Pratyuṣa, 1.15.117

Devamīḍhuṣa, son of Hṛdika, 4.14.6

Devānīka, son of Dharmasāvarṇika, 3.2.32

Devānīka, son of Kṣemadhanvan, 4.4.58

Devāpi, son of Pratīpa, 4.20.4, 7

founder of kṣatriya dynasties, 4.24.37, 38, 40

Devapraharaṇas, gods of divine weapons, 1.15.137

Devarakṣitā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Devarakṣita, king, 4.24.15

Devarakṣita, son of Devaka, 4.14.5

Devarāta, son of Karambhi, 4.12.17

Devarāta, son of Suketu, 4.5.11

Devarāta, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Devaśravas, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Devaśreṣṭha, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.36

Devāṣṭaka, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Devātithi, son of Akrodhana, 4.20.3

Devavant, son of Akrūra, 4.14.2

Devavant, son of Devaka, 4.14.5

Devavant, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.36

Devāvṛdha, son of Satvata, 4.13.1, 4

Devayānī, wife of Yayāti, 4.10.3–4, 11

Devikā River, 2.15.6

devotees, hell for forsaking of, 2.6.11

devotion, 6.2.17

Dhanaka, son of Durdama, 4.11.4

Dhanaṃjaya, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.22

divides Vedas, 3.3.15

rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

Dhaneyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Dhaniṣṭhā, constellation, 3.14.16

Dhaniṣṭhā, lunar mansion, 3.14.9

Dhanur Veda, 3.6.28

Dhanvantari, gods’ physician, 1.9.96, 106

food offering for, 3.11.47

Dhanvantari, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.8.4

Dhanyas, community, 2.4.53

Dhara, a Vasu, 1.15.110

dhāraṇā, ‘holding’, 6.7.75–89

Dharaṇī, wife of Paraśurāma, 1.9.140

Dhāriṇī, daughter of the Vahnayas, 1.10.19–20

Dharma, 2.8.101; 5.1.51

as form of Viṣṇu, 3.17.21

deity, 4.14.9; 4.20.11

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.76, 103

Dharma, son of Gāndhāra, 4.17.2

Dharma, son of Haihaya, 4.11.4

Dharma, son of Rāmacandra, 4.24.14

Dharma, son of Suvrata, 4.23.2

Dharma, star, 2.12.31

Dharma Śāstras, 3.6.27

Dharmadṛk, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Dharmaketu, son of Suketu, 4.8.9

Dharmanetra, son of Dharma, 4.11.4

Dharmaratha, son of Diviratha, 4.18.2

Dharmasāvarṇika, future Manu, 3.2.29

Dharmeyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Dharmin, son of Bṛhadrāja, 4.22.3

Dhārṣṭakas, kṣatriyas, 4.2.4

Dhātakī, region, 2.4.73, 80

Dhātika, son of Savana, 2.4.73

Dhātṛ, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130

libation for, 3.11.44

rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Dhātṛ, son of Bhṛgu, 1.8.14; 1.10.2

Dhenuka, Dānava, 5.1.24; 5.4.2; 5.8.1–13, 5.13.28; 5.15.1; 5.20.35; 5.29.4

Dhenukā River, 2.4.65

Dhīmant, son of Purūravas, 4.7.1

Dhīmant, son of Virāj, 2.1.38

Dhiṣaṇā, wife of Havirdhāna

Dhṛṣṭa, son of Kukura, 4.14.4

Dhṛṣṭa, son of Manu, 4.1.8; 4.2.4

Dhṛṣṭa, son of Vaivasvata, 3.1.33

Dhṛṣṭadyumna, son of Drupada, 4.19.14

Dhṛṣṭaketu, son of Dhṛṣṭadyumna, 4.19.14

Dhṛṣtaketu, son of Satyadhṛti, 4.5.11

Dhṛṣṭaketu, son of Sukumāra 4.8.9

Dhṛta, son of Dharma, 4.17.2

Dhṛtaketu, son of Dakṣasāvarṇi, 3.2.24

Dhṛtarāṣṭra, nāga

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.44

rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

Dhṛteyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Dhṛti, son of Babhru, 4.12.16

Dhṛti, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Dhṛti, son of Vijaya, 4.18.5

Dhṛti, son of Vītahavya, 4.5.12

Dhṛtimant, sage, 3.2.40

Dhṛtimant, son of Yavīnara, 4.19.11

Dhṛtivrata, son of Dhṛti, 4.18.5

Dhṛtrāṣṭra, son of Vicitravīrya, 4.20.10

Dhruva (Pole Star), a Vasu, 1.15.110

Dhruva, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.4–5

Dhruva, son of Rantināra, 4.19.1

Dhruva, son of Uttānapāda, 1.11.3–1.13.3; 2.8.101, 104, 109; 2.9.1–6, 23; 2.12.2, 34

age of, 1.11.33; 1.12.17

alarms deities, 1.12.31

asks for highest state, 1.12.78–82

becomes Pole Star, 1.12.90–96

birth of, 1.11.3

blessed by Viṣṇu, 1.12.51–52

causes earth to tremble, 1.12.8–10

chided, 1.11.6–10

complains to Sunīti, 1.11.11–13

departs from sages, 1.12.1

earlier existence of, 1.12.83–87

granted liberation, 1.12.89

ignores phantoms, 1.12.29–31

instructed by Seven Sages, 1.11.29–56

praised by Uśanas, 1.12.97–100

praises Viṣṇu, 1.12.44–82

proceeds to Madhu, 1.12.2

rejects counsel, 1.11.24–28

shunned, 1.11.3

sons of, 1.13.1

turns the heavens, 2.12.24–28

undertakes austerities, 1.12.5–32

Viṣṇu grants boon, 1.12.42–43, 76–77

Dhruva, star, height of, 2.7.10

Dhruvasaṃdhi, son of Puṣya, 4.4.60

Dhūmorṇā, wife of Yama, 1.8.26

Dhūmrāśva, son of Sucandra, 4.1.36

Dhundhu, demon, 4.2.21–23

Dhundhumāra, 4.2.21

Dhūtapāpā River, 2.4.43

dice, 4.4.26; 5.28.11–28; 5.34.36; 6.3.39

digestion, 3.11.91–97

Dīkṣā, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Dilīpa, son of Aṃśumant, 4.4.24–25

Dilīpa, son of Bhīmasena, 4.20.4

Dilīpa, son of Viśvasaha, 4.4.47

Dīptiketu, son of Dakṣasāvarṇi, 3.2.24

Dīptimant, sage, 3.2.17

Dīptimanta, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.2

directions, guardians of, 1.22.8–13

Dīrghabāhu, son of Khaṭvāṅga, 4.4.49

Dīrghatamas, son of Kāśirāja, 4.8.4; 4.18.1; 4.19.3

Diśas, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

discus, as sign of universal sovereign, 1.13.45–46

discus, Sudarśana, 4.15.11; 5.29.17, 21; 5.33.35–38; 5.34.8–44

checks Yama, 3.7.34

defends Prahlāda, 1.19.19–20

origin of, 3.2.11

diseases, 1.17.88; 6.5.3–4

disrespect, hell for, 2.6.15

dissolution

Brāhma, 6.3.12–40

causal, 6.4.1–11

elemental, 6.4.11–50

final, 6.5.1

threefold, 6.3.1–2

see also destruction

Diṣṭa, son of Vaivasvata, 3.1.33

Diti, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.15.140–142; 5.2.9

receives boon from Kaśyapa, 1.21.30–34

Divākara, son of Prativyoma, 4.22.2

Divaspati, king of gods, 3.2.39

Divāvṛt, mountain range, 2.4.50

Divīlaka, son of Lambodara, 4.24.11

divine beings, creation of, 1.15.86

divine realms, see Triviṣṭapa

Diviratha, son of Anapāna, 4.18.2

Divodāsa, son of Bhīmaratha, 4.8.6

Divodāsa, son of Vadhyaśva, 4.19.14

Divya, son of Satvata, 4.13.1

Divya, son of Uttama, 3.1.15

dog, king reborn as, 3.18.62

donations, 2.8.79–80

donkey-demon, see Dhenuka

donkeys, origin of, 1.21.17

Drauṇi, sage, 3.2.17

Drauṇi, son of Droṇa, 3.3.21

Draupadī, wife of Pāṇḍavas, 4.20.11

Draviṇas, son of Dhara, 1.15.113

Dṛḍhahanu, son of Senajit, 4.19.9

Dṛḍhanemi, son of Satyadhṛti, 4.19.11

Dṛḍhasena, son of Suśrama, 4.23.2

Dṛḍhāśva, son of Dhundhumāra, 4.2.23

dreams, 1.13.95; 5.32.15

Droṇa, son of Bharadvāja, 3.3.21; 4.19.14; 5.35.5, 11, 27, 36; 5.38.16, 47, 64

Droṇa, mountain range, 2.4.26

drought, 4.3.15; 4.20.6–9; 6.1.24–25; 6.3.14–23

Dṛṣṭavarman, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Druhyu, son of Yayāti, 4.10.4, 8, 21

drunkenness, 4.1.28; 4.11.8; 5.23.12; 5.25.8; 5.35.7, 31; 5.37.38

see also liquor

Drupada, son of Pṛṣata, 4.19.14

Duḥśāsana, son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, 4.20.11; 5.35.27

dundubhi, drum, 4.14.8

Dundubhi, see Mount Dundubhi

Dundubhi, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Durdama, son of Bhadraśreṇya, 4.11.4

Durdama, son of Dhṛta, 4.17.2

Durdama, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Durgā, goddess, 5.1.84

Durmada, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Durukṣaya, son of Mahāvīrya, 4.19.8

Durvāsas, son of Atri, 1.10.8; 5.37.62

as manifestation of Śiva, 1.9.2

curses Indra, 1.9.1–24

Duryodhana, son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, 4.13.26, 35; 4.20.11; 5.35.4–11, 27; 5.38.47

dusk, creation of 1.5.36

Duṣyanta, descendant of Puru, 4.16.1

Duṣyanta, son of Ailīna, 4.19.1

duties, neglected, 2.6.32

hell for, 2.6.28

see also communal duty; life—stages of

Dvāpara, age, 4.24.39; 5.2.59; 5.23.26; 6.2.15, 17

Vedas divided during, 3.3.5–30 passim

Dvārakā, city, 4.13.8–37 passim; 5.23.13–15; 5.24.7; 5.25.18; 5.27.31; 5.28.28; 5.29.1–33 passim; 5.30.32; 5.31.7, 9; 5.32.24; 5.33.5, 50; 5.34.27, 33; 5.35.29; 5.37.23–60 passim

flooded by the ocean, 5.38.9

Dvimīḍha, son of Hastin, 4.19.8

Dvimūrdhan, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4

Dvīpa, region, 2.3.7–8

Dvivida, giant monkey, 5.36.1–23

dying, suffering of, 6.5.37–43

dynasty

Lunar, 4.6.1; 4.24.59; 5.23.23

Solar, 4.1.3–4.5.13; 4.24.59

see also Andhras; Bāhlikas; Guhas; Guptas; Kanakas; Maṇidhānakas; Mekalas; Nāgas; Naiṣadhas

Dyuti, sage, 3.2.35

Dyutimant, king of Krauñcadvīpa, 2.4.47

Dyutimant, mountain range, 2.4.41

Dyutimant, sage, 3.2.23

Dyutimant, son of Prāṇa, 1.10.5

Dyutimant, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 14

earth, 4.4.50; 5.30.9; 6.4.14–15

born from Viṣṇu’s sole, 1.13.92

burden eased, 5.38.59–60

complains of burden, 5.1.21–28

devoid of plants, 1.13.67

in form of cow, 1.13.70–95

mocks kings, 4.24.46–55

origin of, 1.15.108

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.29.22–29

praises Viṣṇu, 1.4.11–24; 5.1.12–20

restores the world with milk, 1.13.79–91

saves Prahlāda, 1.19.13

threatened by Pṛthu, 1.13.69–95

see also Dhara

earthly realm, 2.7.3–4, 11

eating, hell for improper, 2.6.16

eclipses, 2.12.21–22; 3.12.36; 3.14.13; 3.14.5

education, 4.3.25

of Prahlāda, 1.17.10

ejaculation, 2.6.29; 4.19.14

see also semen

Ekacakra, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.5

Ekaviṃśa hymns, 1.5.56

ekodiṣṭa, ceremony, 3.13.23–29, 34

Elāputra, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.22

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.46

rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

elements, 3.11.92; 6.4.13–14, 32–34

as forms of Viṣṇu, 3.17.30

fundamental, 2.7.23–24, 34

elephants, 5.29.32–33

sovereignty over, 1.22.5

see also Airāvata—elephant; guardian elephants; Kuvalayāpīḍa—elephant

equinox, 2.8.74–75, 79; 3.14.5

procession of, 4.24.25

etymology

Aśmaka, 4.4.45

bhagavat, 6.5.69–80

Bharadvāja, 4.19.5

Bharata, 4.19.1

brahman, 3.3.22

Janaka, 4.5.10

Keśava, 5.16.23

Māṃdhātṛ, 4.2.33

Maruts, 1.21.39–41

Mithi, 4.5.11

Nārīkavaca, 4.4.46

nimeṣa, 4.5.7

Niṣāda, 1.13.35

Prācīnabarhis, 1.14.4

Pāñcālas, 4.19.13

Pṛthivī, 1.13.59

Putra, 1.13.42n.21

rājan, 1.13.48, 93

Sagara, 4.3.24

Sāgara, 4.4.23

Saṃkarṣaṇa, 4.15.15; 5.1.76

Śāṃtanu, 4.20.5

Sāvarṇi, 3.2.13

sūta, 1.13.51

Taittirīyas, 3.5.13

Vaideha, 4.5.11

Viṣṇu, 3.1.45

Yama, 3.7.15

evil, source of, 1.6.14–17

existence, suffering of, 1.17.55–69

family

improper relations, 6.1.54–55

life, 4.2.41–42

famine, 1.13.68; 6.1.24–26, 38

father, as highest guru, 1.18.13, 16–17

feet, Diti fails to wash, 1.21.37

female

ascetics, 1.15.88, 118

celibacy, 1.15.118

Vedic experts, 1.10.19–20

wrong to kill, 1.13.73

fevers, Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava, 5.33.14–19

fig, sacred, 1.22.7

fire, 1.17.3, 87; 2.8.21–23; 4.15.16; 5.2.9; 5.30.9; 6.4.17–22

as Visṇu, 6.8.22

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

deities, 5.1.58

divided in three, 4.6.45–50

sacred, 1.10.18

supplicates Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

see also Agni; Anala

firestick, 4.5.9; 4.6.47–48

fish, 2.6.34; 4.2.40–42; 5.10.2; 5.37.13

avatāra, 2.2.50; 5.17.11

fishermen, hell for, 2.6.22

flax, 6.1.52

foetus, suffering of, 6.5.10

food, 2.15.11–17, 26–31

offerings, 3.11.45–57; 6.8.38–39

suitable, 3.11.80, 83–88

see also eating—hell for improper; meals—conduct during; meat

footprints, cowherding women interpret, 5.13.31–40

forests, as Visṇu, 6.8.25

fortune-tellers, hell for, 2.6.23

four communities, see communities—four

funerary rituals, 3.13.7–39; 4.13.19; 5.38.1, 5

future kings, 4.21.1–4.24.15

Gabhastī River, 2.4.65

Gabhastimant, region, 2.3.6

Gabhastimat, lower realm, 2.5.2

Gada, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Gādhi, son of Kuśāmba, 4.7.6–18

Gālava, sage, 3.2.17; 3.4.22

Gambhīra, son of Bhautya, 3.2.45

Gandhamādana

forest, 2.2.24

mountain range, 2.2.17, 28, 38

region, 2.1.22

see also Mount Gandhamādana

Gandhamojavāha, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Gāndhāra, son of Āradvant, 4.17.2

Gāndharva, region, 2.3.7

gandharvas, divine beings, 1.19.67; 2.2.47; 2.4.8, 37, 49, 63; 4.6.32–49 passim; 4.11.1; 5.2.16; 5.13.8, 12; 5.23.34; 5.30.61; 5.32.20–21; 6.7.66; 6.8.14

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.19; 6.7.57; 6.8.23

Bharata slays, 4.4.55

creation of, 1.5.46, 58

grant boon to Purūravas, 4.6.44

origin of, 1.21.25

plunder nāgas, 4.3.4

praise Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.6–7

praise Kṛṣṇa, 5.31.8

praise Śrī, 1.9.100

realm of, 1.6.35

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

sing for Brahmā, 4.1.46

sing for Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.5

sing for Śeṣa, 5.18.37, 46

sing for Sun, 2.10.20; 2.11.16

worship Śeṣa, 2.5.24

see also Citrāṅgada; Hāhā; Hūhū; Mauneyas; Tumburu; Viśvāvasu

Gāndharva Veda, 3.6.28

Gāndinī, mother of Akrūra, 4.13.41–42, 44; 4.1.42

Gāṇḍīva, bow, 5.38.21–50 passim

Gaṇḍūṣa, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Gaṅgā River, 2.2.32–37; 2.5.17; 2.8.108–122; 2.9.12–17; 3.14.18; 4.3.15; 4.18.5; 4.20.10; 4.21.3; 4.24.15; 5.35.30; 6.2.4–39

bathes Śrī, 1.9.101

drunk dry by Jahnu, 4.7.3

leads to earth, 4.4.18, 25

qualities of, 2.8.116–122; 4.4.19–21

Gardabhilas, dynasty, 4.24.12

Garga, sage, 2.5.26; 5.23.24

conducts Kṛṣṇa’s birth rites, 5.6.8–9

Garga, son of Bhavanmanyu, 4.19.7

Gārgya, 5.23.1–4

Gārgya, sage, 3.4.25

Gārgyas, community, 4.19.7

garland-maker, receives boon from Kṛṣṇa, 5.19.17–29

Garuḍa, son of Kaśyapa and Vinatā, 1.14.46; 1.21.18; 3.17.35; 4.13.38; 5.1.34; 5.12.4; 5.7.76; 5.29.14, 34–35; 5.30.1, 37–68 passim; 5.31.10; 5.33.12–50 passim; 5.34.13, 23–24

granted sovereignty, 1.22.6

Garuḍa Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Gātravant, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.4

Gaurī, name of Lakṣmī, 1.8.27

Gaurī River, 2.4.55

Gautama, sage, 1.9.21, 3.1.32; 4.5.4

divides Vedas, 3.3.16

rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

Gayā, as site for śrāddha, 3.16.4, 18

Gaya, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2

Gaya, son of Nakta, 2.1.37

Gaya, son of Sudyumna, 4.1.15

Gāyatrī, mantra, 2.8.52; 4.6.48

Gāyatrī, metre, 1.5.53; 2.8.7

geese, wild, 5.10.9

gems, fourteen great, 4.12.1

gemstones, 3.11.76; 3.12.2, 31

hell for damaging, 2.6.15

gender, change of, 4.1.11–12, 14

Ghaṭotkaca, son of Bhīmasena, 4.20.11

ghee, ocean of, 2.4.45

Ghora, hell realm, 1.6.41

Ghoṣa, son of Dharma and Lambā, 1.15.107

Ghoṣavasu, son of Pulindaka, 4.24.9

ghosts, 5.2.16; 5.5.20

Ghṛtācī, apsaras, 1.9.100

rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

Girikṣatra, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

gluttony, hell for, 2.6.19

goats, 6.1.53

hell for feeding, 2.6.21

Gobhānu, son of Vahni, 4.16.1

Godāvarī River, 2.3.12

gods

day and night for, 6.1.4; 6.3.10

flee Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.5

grant boon to Khaṭvāṅga, 4.4.47

grant boon to Mucukunda, 5.23.22

hosts of, 3.1.6–46 passim

imbibe nectar from moon, 2.12.4–7

in human form, 1.17.5

kings of, 3.1.6–46 passim

nurtured by sun, 2.11.23

of divine weapons, 1.15.137

of lightning, 1.15.135

of Vedic verse, 1.15.136

path of, 2.8.90–97

petition Kapila, 4.4.9

sovereignty over, 1.22.6

thirty-three hosts, 1.15.138–139

year for, 6.3.10, 11

see also deities

gods, and demigods

approach Viṣṇu, 4.2.15

battle of, 4.2.15–18; 4.4.47; 4.6.13–16; 4.9.2; 5.23.21, 29; 5.38.72

petition Brahmā, 4.9.3

Gokula, cattle camp, 5.1.74

Gomatī River, 1.15.11; 3.14.18

Gomatīputra, son of Śivasvāti, 4.24.11

Gomeda, mountain range, 2.4.7

Gopīs, see cowherding women

Gotra, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13

Govardhana, see Mount Govardhana

governance, Prahlāda studies, 1.19.26–27

Govinda, origin of name, 5.12.12

see also Kṛṣṇa; Viṣṇu

grain, 6.1.53

grammar, 5.1.38

Gṛdhrikā, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15–16

greatness, mahat, element, 1.2.59

greed, hell for, 2.6.25

Gṛtsamadās, son of Suhotra, 4.8.3

gruel, magic, 4.7.9–16

guardian elephants, 2.9.15

attack Prahlāda, 1.17.41–45

honour Śrī, 1.9.101

see also elephants

guardians, of directions, 2.8.82–84

as Visṇu, 6.8.24

guests, see hospitality

Guhas, dynasty, 4.24.15

guhyakas, demons, 4.11.1; 5.2.16

guṇas, qualities, 2.13.65–66; 2.14.5; 6.4.34

Guptas, dynasty, 4.24.15

guru

conduct towards, 3.9.2–7

hell for disrespect of, 2.6.12

hell for killing, 2.6.8

hell for marriage bed violation, 2.6.10

guru-dakṣiṇā, tuition fee, 3.9.7; 5.21.23; 6.6.38, 42–44

Hāhā, gandharva, 4.1.46

rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

Haihaya, son of Śatajit, 4.11.4

Haihayas, clan, 4.3.18, 27; 4.4.51

Hāla, son of Ariṣṭakarman, 4.24.11

hālāhala, see poison

Haṃsa, mountain range, 2.2.29

Hara, a Rudra, 1.15.122

hares, 4.2.10–12

Hari, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.39

see also Kṛṣṇa; Viṣṇu

Hari, mountain range, 2.4.41

Harī, mother of gods, 3.1.39

Haris, deities, 3.1.16, 39

Hariścandra, son of Triśaṅku, 4.3.17

Harita, son of Parāvṛt, 4.12.3

Harita, son of Rohitāśva, 4.3.17

Harita, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Harīta, son of Yuvanāśva, 4.3.3

Haritas, deities, 3.2.34

Hārītaka, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Hārītas, community, 4.3.3

Harivarṣa, region, 2.2.13

Harivarṣa, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 18

Harṣavardhana, son of Kṛta, 4.9.14

Haryaṅga, son of Campa, 4.18.4

Haryaśva, son of Cakṣus, 4.19.13

Haryaśva, son of Dhṛṣṭaketu, 4.5.11

Haryaśva, son of Dṛḍhāśva, 4.2.24

Haryaśva, son of Pṛṣadaśva, 4.3.14

Haryaśvas, sons of Dakṣa, 1.15.89–94

search for limits of earth, 1.15.92–94

Haryātman, divides Vedas, 3.3.16

Hastin, son of Suhotra, 4.19.8

Hastināpura, city, 4.13.26; 4.19.8

threatened by Balarāma, 5.35.1–38

washed away by Gaṅgā, 4.21.3

Havirdhāna, son of Antardhi, 1.14.1

Haviṣmant, sage, 3.1.28; 3.2.27; 3.2.31

hawks, origin of, 1.21.16

Hayagrīva, demon, 5.29.19

Hayaśiras, daughter of Vṛṣaparvan, 1.21.7

Hayaśiras, form of Viṣṇu, 2.2.49

heat and cold, source of, 2.10.23

heaven, 2.6.36; 5.2.12

and hell, nature of 2.6.44–46

outcaste raised to, 4.3.16

heavenly bodies, movement of, 2.9.2–3

Hehaya, son of Śatajit, 4.11.4

hell, suffering in, 6.5.42–49

hell realms, 1.6.41; 2.6.1–36

Adhaḥśiras, 2.6.4

Adhomukha, 2.6.18

Andhatāmisra, 1.6.41

and Kṛṣṇa, 2.6.3, 26

Apratiṣṭha, 2.6.5

Asipatravana, 1.6.41; 2.6.3, 26

Avīci, 1.6.41; 2.6.4–5

Dāruṇa, 2.6.3

Ghora, 1.6.41

Kālasūtra, 1.6.41

Kṛmibhakṣa, 2.6.15

Kṛmibhojana, 2.6.3

Kṛmiśa, 2.6.3, 15

Kṛṣṇasūtra, 2.6.4

Lālābhakṣa, 2.6.3, 16

Lavaṇa, 2.6.2, 13

Mahājvāla, 2.6.2, 12

Mahāraurava, 1.6.41

Pāpa, 2.6.4

Pūyavaha, 2.6.4, 19

Raurava, 1.6.41; 2.6.2, 7

Rodha, 2.6.2, 8

Rudhirāmbhas, 2.6.3

Rudhirāndha, 2.6.23

Saṃdaṃśa, 2.6.4, 28

Sūkara, 2.6.2

Sūraka, 2.6.9

Śvabhojana, 2.6.5, 29

Tāla, 2.6.2, 10

Tamas, 2.6.4

Tāmistra, 1.6.41; 3.11.103

Taptakumbha, 2.6.2, 10

Taptaloha, 2.6.11

Vahnijvāla, 2.6.4, 26

Vaitaraṇī, 2.6.3, 24

Vedhaka, 2.6.16

Vilohita, 2.6.2

Vimoha, 2.6.14

Viśasana, 2.6.2, 17

Hema, son of Ruṣadratha, 4.18.1

Hemacandra, son of Viśāla, 4.1.35

Hemakūṭa, mountain range, 2.2.11

Hemakūṭa, region, 2.1.18

Hemaśaila, mountain range, 2.4.41

herbs, 5.30.12

herdsmen, praise Kṛṣṇa, 5.13.1–8

heresy, 4.20.7–9; 6.1.39, 44, 48–50

heretic, crime of addressing, 3.18.57–104 passim

Heti, rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Hiḍimbā, rākṣasī, consort of Bhīmasena, 4.20.11

highest goal, nature of, 2.14.12–33

highest state, 6.8.31

Himāhva, region, 2.1.17, 26

Himāhvaya, region, 2.1.26

Himalaya, father of Umā, 1.8.13

Himālaya, mountain range, 2.3.1, 10; 4.1.73; 5.9.30

Himavant, mountain range, 2.2.11

Hiraṇmaya, region, 2.2.14

Hiraṇvant, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 20

Hiraṇyakaśipu, Daitya king, 1.15.140; 4.14.10–11; 4.15.1, 4

casts Prahlāda into ocean, 1.19.50–62

deploys magic, 1.19.14–15

orders apparition, 1.18.9

orders poison, 1.18.1–3

questions Prahlāda, 1.19.1–2, 29–32

receives a boon, 1.17.2

slain by Narasiṃha, 1.20.32

sons of, 1.15.142; 5.1.70, 72

soothed by priests, 1.17.48–53

summons Wind, 1.19.21

threatens Prahlāda, 1.17.13–31 passim

usurps universal sovereignty, 1.17.3–9

Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.15.140; 1.21.2

Hiraṇyanābha, son of Viśvasaha, 3.6.4, 5, 7; 4.4.59; 4.19.11

Hiraṇyaroman, guardian of the north, 1.22.12; 2.8.83

Hiraṇyaroman, sage, 3.1.22

historical texts, 3.4.10; 5.1.38

Hlāda, son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.15.142

horses, 5.29.32

avatāra, 5.17.11

hell for feeding, 2.6.21

hell for trading, 2.6.11

of sun, 2.8.7

origin of, 1.21.17

Saṃjñā takes form of, 3.2.6

sovereignty over, 1.22.6

Sun takes form of, 3.2.7; 3.5.26

with one black ear, 4.7.8

horse-sacrifice, 2.8.96; 3.18.85, 96; 4.1.38; 4.12.3

Sagara’s, 4.4.11–22

see also āśvamedha

hospitality, 3.11.58–70; 106–109; 3.15.24–25; 3.9.14–16; 5.30.2

hotṛ, sacrificing priest, 3.4.12

House of Lacquer, 4.13.26

householder

conduct of, 3.11.1–3.12.45; 3.12.1–45

duties of, 3.9.7–18

neglected duties, 6.1.32

Hrāda, Daitya, 3.17.9; 3.17.37

Hrasvaroman, son of Suvarṇaroman, 4.5.11

Hṛdika, son of Svayaṃbhoja, 4.14.5

Hūhū (also Huhū), gandharva, 4.1.46

rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

humankind, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.6.34; 5.2.17; 5.23.34; 6.7.57, 65–66

as Visṇu, 3.17.27; 6.8.24

creation of, 1.5.16–18, 37

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.57

qualities of, 3.17.27

Hūṇas, people, 2.3.17

Hutahavyavaha, son of Dhara, 1.15.113

hygiene, personal, 3.11.9–22, 89

Ikṣu River, 2.4.65

Ikṣumatī River, 2.13.49

Ikṣvāku, son of Manu Vaivasvata, 3.1.33; 3.16.17; 4.1.8; 4.24.59

born from Manu’s nose, 4.2.8

lineage of, 4.2.8–4.4.61; 4.7.18; 4.22.2–3

Ilā, daughter of Manu, 4.1.10–11, 14; 4.6.24–50

Ilavilā, daughter of Tṛṇabindu, 4.1.32

Ilāvṛta, region, 2.2.15–16, 23

Ilāvṛta, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 19

Ilivila, son of Daśaratha, 4.4.47

illusion, Kṛṣṇa’s, 5.30.14–21

illusionary powers, 5.27.13

Ilvala, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

immorality, hell for, 2.6.14

incest, 1.7.17–18; 5.27.14

hell for, 2.6.10, 12

individuation, ahaṃkāra, 1.2.35–73 passim

Indra, king of gods, 1.17.3; 1.9.68; 2.2.54; 3.1.43; 4.1.28; 4.2.17, 33; 4.5.2–3; 4.6.12; 4.10.6; 4.14.9; 4.20.11; 5.1.58, 81; 5.4.4, 6, 7; 5.11.14, 23–25; 5.14.14; 5.16.22; 5.17.8; 5.20.92; 5.30.4; 5.30.41–5.31.7 passim; 5.35.24; 5.37.16; 6.7.67

and deities call on Brahmā, 1.9.33

approaches Kṛṣṇa, 5.29.1–13

arises from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as Viṣṇu, 6.7.56; 6.8.22

asks Śrī for boon, 1.9.133–134

born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130

city of, 2.2.31; 2.8.8–9, 16

consecrates Kṛṣṇa, 5.12.13–26

consulted by Yāmas, 1.12.12

contemplates Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

cursed by Durvāsas, 1.9.12–24

cuts foetus, 1.21.38–40

divides Vedas, 3.3.13

enrages Durvāsas, 1.9.7–10

enters Diti’s womb, 1.21.37

fears Kaṇḍu’s austerities, 1.15.12

festival for, 5.10.16–24

food offering for, 3.11.46

foretells advent of Arjuna, 5.12.17–20

honours Kṛṣṇa, 5.30.28

in form of bull, 4.2.18

king of gods, 3.1.31

manifests as Gādhi, 4.7.6

performs sacrifices 5.17.7

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.12.1–18; 5.30.75–78

praises Lakṣmī, 1.9.113–130

present in guest, 3.11.69

realm of, 1.6.34

rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

sends Pramlocā to Kaṇḍu, 1.15.12

sovereignty over gods, 1.22.6

sovereignty over Maruts, 1.22.4

supplicates Viṣṇu, 1.9.63

surrenders assembly hall, 5.21.14–17

threatens deluge, 5.11.1–5, 23

usurped by Raji, 4.9.1–13

worships Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.65

Indradvīpa, region, 2.3.6

Indradyumna, son of Sumati, 2.1.35

Indrāṇī, wife of Indra, 1.8.25

Indrapramati, sage, 3.4.16, 19

Indu, the Moon, food offering for, 3.11.46

infancy, suffering of, 6.5.16–20

informers, hell for, 2.6.22

inheritance, refused, 4.1.16

insects, 1.19.68; 2.6.34; 5.30.12; 6.5.7; 6.7.64

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.57

insight, divine, 3.18.65–87

insignia, Vaiṣṇava, 5.34.5–6

intellect, 5.30.9

Irā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125

Irāvant, son of Arjuna, 4.20.12

Īśāna, name of Rudra, 1.8.6

jackals

assail Dhurva, 1.12.26, 29

king reborn as, 3.18.72

Jagatī, metre, 1.5.55; 2.8.7

Jahnu, descendant of Raghu, 4.24.59

Jahnu, son of Kuru, 4.19.14

Jahnu, son of Suhotra, 4.7.3

Jaimini, disciple of Vyāsa, 3.4.9; 3.6.1–2; 4.4.59

Jain ascetic, phantom in form of, 3.18.2–15

Jaitra, Kṛṣṇa’s chariot, 5.37.46

Jājali, sage, 3.6.11

Jalada, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Jaladhāra, mountain range, 2.4.62

Jaleyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Jamadagni, son of Ṛcīka, 3.1.32; 4.7.18

rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

Jāmbavant, king of bears, 4.13.12–22

Jāmbavatī, daughter of Jāmbavant, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 4.13.21–24; 4.15.19; 5.28.4; 5.30.34; 5.32.2

Jambha, Daitya, 4.6.12; 5.14.14

jambū, tree, 2.2.18–22; 2.4.18

Jambūdvīpa, continent, 2.1.12, 15; 2.2.7, 19; 2.3.27–28; 2.4.1–2

divided, 2.1.17–22

origin of name, 2.2.19

qualities of, 2.1.24–26; 2.2.45–55

Jambūmārga, forest, 2.13.33

jāmbūnada, gold, 2.2.22

Jambūnadī River, 2.2.20–22

Jāmī, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Janaka, etymology, 4.5.10

Janaka, king, 4.4.50, 4.24.46

lineage of, 4.5.10–12

welcomes Balarāma, 4.13.35

Janaka, son of Nimi, 4.5.10

Janaka, son of Viśākhayūpa, 4.24.1

Janaloka, realm, 1.3.25; 1.4.10, 27–28, 30; 2.7.13–14, 19; 6.3.29; 6.4.5

Janamejaya, son of Parīkṣit, 4.21.1

Janamejaya, son of Puraṃjaya, 4.18.1

Janamejaya, son of Puru, 4.19.1

Janamejaya, son of Somadatta, 4.1.39

Jantu, son of Somaka, 4.19.14

Jantu, son of Sudhanvan, 4.19.14

Jānujaṅgha, son of Tāmasa, 3.1.19

Jarā, demon, 4.19.14

Jaras, hunter, 5.37.13, 63–68

Jarāsandha, son of Bṛhadratha, 4.19.14; 4.23.1; 5.4.8; 5.26.3–7; 5.37.25

fights Kṛṣṇa, 5.22.1–18

Jārudhi, mountain range, 2.2.28, 43

Jaṭhara, mountain range, 2.2.29, 40, 44

Jātukarṇa

divides Vedas, 3.3.19

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.48

Java, sage, 3.4.25

Jaya, son of Saṃjaya, 4.9.14

Jaya, son of Suśruta, 4.5.12

Jayadhvaja, son of Paraśurāma, 4.11.9

Jayadratha, 5.38.16

Jayadratha, son of Bṛhanmanas, 4.18.4

Jayadratha, son of Bṛhatkarman, 4.19.9

Jayakṛta, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Jayasena, son of Sārvabhauma, 4.20.3

Jayatsena, son of Adīna, 4.9.14

Jharjhara, son of Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.21.3

Jīmūta, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Jīmūta, son of Vyoma, 4.12.17

Jita, sage, 3.2.45

Jṛmbhaṇa, weapon, 5.33.24

Jupiter, 2.12.19; 4.24.22

height of, 2.7.8–9

Jyāmagha, son of Parāvṛt, 4.12.3–15, 17

Jyeṣṭha, month, 6.8.31

Jyeṣṭhāmūla, month, 6.8.33, 37, 38

Jyeṣṭhasāman, hymn, 3.15.2

Jyotirdhāman, sage, 3.1.18

Jyotis, a Vasu, 1.15.109

Jyotiṣmant, king of Kuśadvīpa, 2.4.35

Jyotiṣmant, sage, 3.2.23

Jyotiṣmant, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.8, 13

Kabandha, rākṣasa, 4.4.53

Kabandha, sage, 3.6.9

Kacchanīra, rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Kacchapa, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

kadamba, tree, 2.2.18; 5.6.46; 5.7.10

Kadru, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.20

Kaikeya, son of Śibi, 4.18.1

Kaikeyas, clan, 4.14.10

Kailāsa, see Mount Kailāsa

Kailika Yavanas, dynasty, 4.24.13

Kaiśika, son of Dhṛti, 4.12.16

Kaiśika, son of Vidarbha, 4.12.16

Kaivartas, community, 4.24.15

Kākavarṇa, son of Śiśunāga, 4.24.2

Kakṣeyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Kakudmin, son of Revata, 4.1.44; 4.2.1

Kakudvatī, daughter of Rukmin, 4.15.20

Kakutstha, son of Śaśāda, 4.2.19–20, 44; 4.24.68

Kāla, son of Dhruva, 1.15.111

kalā, unit of time, 1.3.8; 2.8.59; 6.3.6

Kālakā, daughter of Vaiśvānara, 1.21.8

Kālakeyas, Dānavas, sons of Pulomā and Mārīca, 1.21.9

Kālanābha, son of Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.21.3

Kālanābha, son of Vipracitti,1.21.12

Kālānara, son of Sabhānara, 4.18.1

Kālanemi, Daitya, 5.1.22–23, 65

Kālañjana, mountain range, 2.2.29

Kalāpa, grove, 3.16.17

Kalāpa, village, 4.4.60; 4.24.37

Kālasūtra, hell realm, 1.6.41

Kālatoyas, community, 4.24.15

Kālāyani, sage, 3.4.25

Kālayavana, warrior, 5.23.5–16

Kali age, 3.7.21; 4.1.54; 4.21.3; 4.22.3; 5.24.5; 6.1.7; 6.8.21, 50–51

duration of, 4.24.31–34

end of, 4.24.15–40

nature of, 6.1.9–59

sole virtue of, 6.2.1–39

start of, 4.24.26–27, 32; 5.38.8

Kālindī, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.3; 5.32.4

Kaliṅga, brahmin from, 3.7.9–36

Kaliṅga, king of, 5.28.10, 15, 17, 25

Kaliṅga, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.18.1

Kaliṅgas, people, 2.3.16; 4.24.15

Kāliya, nāga, 5.7.3–81; 5.13.4, 26; 5.15.2; 5.20.34

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.58–74

wives praise Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.48–57

Kalki, avatāra of Viṣṇu, 3.2.59; 4.24.20

Kalmāṣapāda, son of Sudāsa, 4.4.39

kalpa, see aeon

Kāmagamas, deities, 3.2.30

Kāmarūpa, region, 2.3.15

Kambala, serpent, son of Kaśyapa and Kadru, 1.21.21

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.46

rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

Kambalabarhis, son of Andhaka, 4.14.3

Kamboja, region, 5.29.32–33

Kāmbojas, tribe, 4.3.28

Kāmpilya, kingdom, 4.19.9

Kāmpilya, son of Haryaśva, 4.19.13

Kaṃsā, daughter of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Kaṃsa, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5; 4.15.14; 5.1.23, 65; 5.3.9, 11, 13; 5.12.21; 5.16.25; 5.18.5–10 passim; 5.19.11; 5.20.59; 5.21.2, 5; 5.29.5

addresses wrestlers, 5.20.17–23

defeat of, 5.10.70–79

dispatches Akrūra, 5.15.12–22

murders infants, 5.1.67–69, 73, 75, 80

orders Kṛṣṇa’s death, 5.4.13–14

plots Kṛṣṇa’s downfall, 5.15.1–24

seizes Yoganidrā, 5.3.25–29

summons Daityas, 5.4.1–16

threatens Devakī, 5.1.6–11

Kaṃsavatī, daughter of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Kanakas, dynasty, 4.24.15

Kāñcana, son of Bhīma, 4.7.3

Kaṇḍu, sage

and Pramlocā, 1.15.13–45

praises Viṣṇu, 1.15.55–58

retires to Puruṣottama, 1.15.52

undertakes austerities, 1.15.11

Kaniṣṭhas, deities, 3.2.43

Kaṅka, mountain range, 2.4.27

Kaṅka, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Kaṅkī, daughter of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Kaṇva, sage, 3.5.30; 4.24.11; 5.37.6

Kaṇva, son of Ajamīḍha, 4.19.8

Kaṇva, son of Apratiratha, 4.19.1

Kāṇvāyana, brahmins, 4.19.1, 8

Kāṇvāyana, dynasty, 4.24.11

Kapālin, a Rudra, 1.15.123

Kapardin, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Kapi, son of Durukṣaya, 4.19.8

Kapila, mountain range, 2.2.28

Kapila, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Kapila, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4; 2.13.49–50; 2.14.7, 9; 3.2.56; 4.4.9–18

grants boon, 4.4.19

Kapilas, community, 2.4.30

Kapilāśva, son of Dhundhumāra, 4.2.23

Kapotaroman, son of Dhṛṣṭa, 4.14.4

Karambhi, son of Śakuni, 4.12.17

Karaṃdhama, son of Traiśānu, 4.16.1

Karandhama, son of Ativibhūti, 4.1.25

Kardama, son of Pulaha, 1.10.10; 1.22.10; 2.1.5; 2.8.83

Kareṇamatī, consort of Nakula, 4.20.11

Karkoṭaka, serpent, son of Kaśyapa and Kadru, 1.21.22

rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

karma, 1.11.17; 1.12.83–87; 1.15.60–71; 1.17.81; 2.3.26; 2.13.6, 66, 93–94, 2.14.5; 3.7.4; 3.11.52; 5.23.44; 6.5.13; 6.7.35

Karṇa, son of Sūrya, 4.14.9; 5.35.5, 11, 27; 5.38.16, 47, 64

found in a basket, 4.18.5

Kārtavīrya, see Arjuna Kārtavīrya

Kārttika, month, 1.22.87; 2.10.12; 3.14.12; 3.18.57

Kārttikeya, god of war, son of the Kṛttikās (Pliades), 1.15.116; 3.2.12

fights Kṛṣṇa, 5.33.21, 27

Karundhaka, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Karūṣa, son of Manu Vaivasvata, 3.1.34; 4.1.8

Kārūṣas, kṣatriyas, 2.3.17; 4.1.19; 4.14.10

Kaśeru, region, 2.3.6

Kaśeru, sage, 6.6.15, 17

Kashmir, region, 4.24.15

Kāśī, city, 5.21.19

see also Vārāṇasī

Kāśī, consort of Bhīmasena, 4.20.11

Kāśī, king of, 3.18.63; 4.8.9; 4.13.40; 4.20.10; 5.34.14

Kāśirāja, son of Kāśya, 4.8.4

kāṣṭhā, unit of time, 1.3.8; 2.8.59; 6.3.6

Kāśya, son of Senajit, 4.19.9

Kāśya, son of Suhotra, 4.8.3

Kaśyapa, sage, 1.15.140; 3.1.32, 42; 3.6.18

creates vegetation, 1.21.24

daughters of, 1.21.15

descendants of, 1.21.26

grants Diti a boon, 1.21.30–34

offspring with Surabhi, 1.21.24

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.76, 103

rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

sons of, 1.21.18–23

Kaśyapa, star, 2.12.34

Kaumāra, creation, 1.5.25

Kaumodakī, mace, 5.22.6

Kauravas, clan, 5.35.4–38

Kauśaki, son of Kuśāmba, 4.7.6

Kauśakī River, 4.7.18

Kauśambī, city, 4.21.3

Kauśika, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

descendants of, 4.7.20

Kaustubha, jewel, 1.22.66

Kauṭilya, sage, 4.24.5, 6

Kāvya, sage, 3.1.18

Kesarī, see Mount Kesarī

Keśava, etymology, 5.16.23

Keśidhvaja, son of Kṛtadhvaja, 6.5.81, 6.6.5–6.7.105

Keśin, Daitya, 5.1.24; 5.4.1–2; 5.12.21; 5.15.10; 5.20.35; 5.29.4

slain by Kṛṣṇa, 5.16.1–28

Keśinī, wife of Sagara, 4.4.1–4

Ketu, shadow-planet, 2.12.23

Ketumāla, region, 2.2.23–49 passim

Ketumāla, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 22

Ketumant, guardian of the west, 1.22.11; 2.8.83

Ketumant, son of Dhanvantari, 4.8.6

Kevala, son of Nara, 4.1.31

Khāṇḍikya Janaka, son of Amitadhvaja, 6.5.81; 6.6.5–6.7.105

Khaninetra, son of Viviṃśa, 4.1.24

Khanitra, son of Prajāni, 4.1.24

Kharadūṣaṇa, rākṣasa, 4.4.53

Khasṛma, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

Khaṭvāṅga, son of Viśvasaha, 4.4.47–48

Khyāti, son of Kuru, 1.13.6

Khyāti, son of Tāmasa, 3.1.19

Khyāti River, 2.4.55

Kiṃnara, son of Sunakṣatra, 4.22.3

kiṃnaras, supernatural beings, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.2.46; 5.23.34

creation of, 1.5.59

worship Śeṣa, 2.5.24

Kimpuruṣa, region, 2.2.13

Kimpuruṣa, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 18

Kimpuruṣa, son of Svārociṣa, 3.1.12

kimpuruṣas, supernatural beings, 2.4.37; 4.11.1

kings

of the future, 4.21.1–4.24.15

unvirtuous conduct of, 6.1.34

Kirātas, people, 2.3.8

Kīrtimant, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

kites, origin of, 1.21.16

knowledge, 5.1.35; 5.2.19; 6.7.93

branches of, 3.6.27–28; 5.10.27

nature of, 6.5.60–62

Kolāhala, see Mount Kolāhala

Kosala, kingdom, 4.4.57; 4.24.14, 15

Koṭavī, phantom, 5.33.36–37

Kramu River, 2.4.11

Kratha, son of Vidarbha, 4.12.16

Kratu, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5

Kratu, son of Kuru, 1.10.11; 1.13.6

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.46

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

Krauñca, continent, 2.2.5

Krauñca, mountain range, 2.4.50

Krauñca, sage, 3.4.24

Krauñcadvīpa, continent, 2.1.14; 2.4.45–58

communities of, 2.4.52–53

inhabitants of, 2.4.49

mountains of, 2.4.49–51

rivers of, 2.4.54–55

rulers of, 2.4.47–48

worship of Viṣṇu on, 2.4.56

Kṛkaṇa, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Kṛmi, son of Uśīnara, 4.18.1

Kṛmibhakṣa, hell realm, 2.6.15

Kṛmibhojana, hell realm, 2.6.3

Kṛmiśa, hell realm, 2.6.3, 15

Krodhavaśā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.23

Kroṣṭu, son of Yadu, 4.11.3; 4.12.1

Kṛpa, son of Satyadhṛti, 3.2.17; 4.19.14; 4.21.2; 5.35.36

Kṛpī, daughter of Satyadhṛti, wife of Droṇa, 4.19.14

Kṛśāśva, sage, 1.15.137

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.104

Kṛśāśva, son of Sahadeva, 4.1.37

Kṛśāśva, son of Saṃhitāśva, 4.2.24

Kṛṣṇa

abducts Rukmiṇī, 5.26.2–12

advent of, foretold by Viṣṇu, 5.1.60–65

and Kali age, 4.24.27–32

and Syamantaka, 4.13.9–57

as all creation, 5.30.13

as birds, 5.30.12

as Brahmā, 5.30.10

as cosmic egg, 5.7.50

as creepers 5.30.12

as Daityas, 5.30.11

as day and night, 5.30.9

as deities, 5.30.11

as domestic animals, 5.30.12

as earth, 5.30.9

as fire, 5.30.9

as gandharvas, 5.30.11

as herb, 5.30.12

as humans, 5.30.11

as insects, 5.30.12

as intellect, 5.30.9

as kūṣmāṇḍas, 5.30.11

as mind, 5.30.9

as nāgas, 5.30.11

as piśācas, 5.30.11

as rākṣasas, 5.30.11

as Rudra, 6.3.16–25

as shrubs, 5.30.12

as siddhas, 5.30.11

as Śiva, 5.30.10

as sky, 5.30.9

as snakes, 5.30.12

as trees, 5.30.12

as trimūrti, 5.30.10

as twilight, 5.30.9

as vines, 5.30.12

as Viṣṇu, 1.91.141; 5.1.4; 5.30.10

as Viṣṇu’s aspect, 5.20.38

as water, 5.30.9

as wild animals, 5.30.12

as wind, 5.30.9

as world, 5.2.13–18

as yakṣas, 5.30.11

becomes Govinda, 5.12.12

becomes Indra’s brother, 5.12.12

breaks the bow, 5.20.13–16

brother of Śipraka, 4.24.11

burns Vārāṇasī, 5.34.3–44

celebrates cattle-herding, 5.10.25–41

delights herding women, 5.13.1–61

departs the world, 5.38.61–62

destroys elements, 6.4.13

fells arjuna trees, 5.6.16–19, 23

fights Ariṣṭa, 5.14.1–14

fights Bāṇa, 5.33.27–48

fights deities for Pārijāta, 5.30.50–78

fights Dhenuka, 5.8.1–13

fights Jarāsandha, 5.22.1–18

fights Kāliya, 5.7.1–81

fights Kaṃsa, 5.10.70–79

fights Keśin, 5.16.1–28

fights king of Kāśī, 5.34.25–29

fights Naraka, 5.29.1–22

fights Pauṇḍraka, 5.34.19–27

fights phantom, 5.34.37–39

fights Pūtanā, 5.5.7–11

fights Śatadhanvan, 4.13.34

fights Śiva, 5.32.8; 5.33.21–26

fights washerman, 5.19.1–17

fights wrestlers, 5.20.23–69

fights Yādavas, 5.37.45

fights Yavanas, 5.24.6

grants boon to garland-maker, 5.19.17–29

hell realm, 2.6.3, 26

illusion of, 5.30.14–21

in Devakī’s womb, 5.2.4–6

in form of mountain, 5.10.47–48

leads Yādavas to Dvārakā, 5.23.1–15

leaves for Mathurā, 5.18.1–31

marries Naraka’s womenfolk, 5.31.14–18

meets girl with curved spine, 5.20.1–12

merges with Absolute, 5.37.69–70

named, 5.6.9

named Keśava, 5.16.23

overturns wagon, 5.6.1–7, 23

physical appearance of, 5.17.18–22

plays in Vṛndāvana, 5.6.32–51

praised by Aditi, 5.30.6–23

praised by Akrūra, 5.17.1–17

praised by Balārāma, 5.7.35–42

praised by herdsmen, 5.13.1–8

praised by Kāliya, 5.7.58–74

praised by Kāliya’s wives, 5.7.48–57

praised by Mucukunda, 5.23.18–46

praised by Vasudeva, 5.20.82–92

praises Balarāma, 5.9.22–33

raises Govardhana, 5.11.13–25

receives boon from Aditi, 5.30.25

requests return to heaven, 5.37.15–26

rescues son of Sāndīpani, 5.21.18–31

restores Parīkṣit to life, 4.20.13

retrieves treasures from Naraka, 5.29.14–35

shot by Jaras, 5.37.67

sixteen thousand wives of, 4.13.56

sons of, 4.15.19–22; 5.32.1–6

tied to mortar, 6.6.14–15, 19–20

visits Aditi, 5.30.2

vows to protect Arjuna, 5.12.19–23

withdraws divine form, 5.3.14

wives of, 5.14.19

worships Govardhana, 5.10.26–49

see also Viṣṇu

Kṛṣṇa, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2

Kṛṣṇa, son of Vasudeva, advent of, 4.15.16–19

Kṛṣṇa Dvaipāyana, divides Vedas, 3.3.19, 21

see also Vyāsa

Kṛṣṇas, community, 2.4.30

Kṛṣṇasūtra, hell realm, 2.6.4

Kṛṣṇaveṇī River, 2.3.12

Kṛta age, 3.2.47, 56; 4.24.21–22, 39; 6.1.7; 6.2.15, 17

start of, 4.24.34, 38

Kṛta, son of Sannatimant, 4.19.11

Kṛta, son of Vijaya, 4.9.14

Kṛtadharma, son of Dhanaka, 4.11.4

Kṛtadhvaja, son of Janaka Dharmadhvaja, 6.6.7

Kṛtāgni, son of Dhanaka, 4.11.4

Kṛtaka, son of Cyavana, 4.19.14

Kṛtaka, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Kṛtamālā River, 2.3.13

Kṛtaṃjaya, son of Dharmin, 4.22.3

divides Vedas, 3.3.15

Kṛtanandana, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

Kṛtaratha, son of Pratibandhaka, 4.5.11

Kṛtasthalā, rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Kṛtaujas, son of Dhanaka, 4.11.4

Kṛtavarman, son of Hṛdika, 4.13.24, 25, 29; 4.14.6; 5.37.41

Kṛtavīrya, son of Dhanaka, 4.11.4

Kṛti, sage, 3.6.7

Kṛti, son of Bahulāśva, 4.5.12

Kṛti, son of Kṛtaratha, 4.5.11

Kṛti, son of Nahuṣa, 4.10.1

Kṛtirāta, son of Mahādhṛti, 4.5.11

Kṛttikā, lunar mansion, 2.8.76–78; 2.9.15

Kṛttikās (Pliades), 1.15.116

Kṛtvī, daughter of Śuka, 4.19.10

Kṣamā, wife of Pulaha, 1.10.10

Kṣatradharman, son of Saṃkṛti, 4.9.14

Kṣatravṛddha, son of Āyus, 4.8.2; 4.9.14

Kṣatriyas, community, 3.8.12; 4.1.19; 4.2.7; 4.4.60; 4.24.35; 6.7.1, 3, 6

creation of, 1.6.4, 6

dispersion of, 4.2.3, 4

duties of, 3.8.26–29, 38

excluded from Vedic religion, 4.3.31

extermination of, 4.4.46, 51; 4.7.18; 4.13.36; 4.24.3, 15

fate of, 4.7.16

heaven for, 1.6.34

hell for killing, 2.6.10

see also communities

Kṣatriya dynasties, founders of, 4.24.37–38

Kṣatrojas, son of Kṣemadharman, 4.24.2

Kṣemadhanvan, son of Puṇḍarīka, 4.4.58

Kṣemadharman, son of Kākavarṇa, 4.24.2

Kṣemaka, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.4–5

Kṣemaka, son of Niramitra, 4.21.3

Kṣemakarī, goddess, 5.1.84

Kṣemāri, son of Saṃjaya, 4.5.12

Kṣemyā, goddess, 5.1.84

Kṣemya, son of Śucināman, 4.23.2

Kṣemya, son of Ugrāyudha, 4.19.13

Kṣudraka, son of Prasenajit, 4.22.3

Kubera, god of wealth, 1.17.4; 3.2.11; 5.30.59; 5.36.12

Kuhū, daughter of Aṅgiras, 1.10.8

Kukṣi, daughter of Priyavrata, 2.1.5

Kukudmant, mountain range, 2.4.27

Kukura, son of Andhaka, 4.14.3

Kukuras, people, 5.37.37

Kumanda, mountain range, 2.2.26

Kumāra, son of Agni, 1.15.115

Kumāra, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Kumārā River, 2.3.14

Kumārī River, 2.4.65

Kumbha, Daitya, 4.6.12

Kumbhāṇḍa, minister, 5.32.17

Kumuda, mountain range, 2.4.26

Kumudādi, sage, 3.6.11

Kumudvatī River, 2.4.55

Kuṇḍaka, son of Kṣudraka, 4.22.3

Kuṇḍina, city, 5.26.1,5, 9

Kuṇi, son of Satyadhvaja, 4.5.12

Kunti, father of Pṛthā, 4.14.9

Kunti, son of Dharmanetra, 4.11.4

Kunti, son of Kratha, 4.12.16

Kuntī, wife of Pāṇḍu, 4.20.11; 5.12.24

Kuraras, community, 2.4.17

Kurarin, mountain range, 2.2.26

Kūrma Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Kuru, people, 2.2.50; 2.3.15

Kuru, region, 2.2.39

Kuru, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 21

Kuru, son of Manu, 1.13.5

Kuru, son of Saṃvaraṇa, 4.19.14

Kurukṣetra, region, 4.6.39; 4.19.14; 6.8.29

Kuruvatsa, son of Anavaratha, 4.12.17

Kuśa, son of Balākāśva, 4.7.5

Kuśa, son of Rāma, 4.4.58

Kuśadhvaja, king, 4.5.11

Kuśadvīpa, continent, 2.1.13; 2.4.34–46

communities of, 2.4.38–40

inhabitants of, 2.4.37

mountains of, 2.4.41

rivers of, 2.4.42–44

rulers of, 2.4.35–36

worship of Viṣṇu on, 2.4.40

Kuśāgra, son of Bṛhadratha, 4.19.14

kuśa-grass, 1.13.29; 1.14.4; 2.4.44; 3.15.19

Kuśala, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Kuśāmba, son of Kuśa, 4.7.5–6

Kuśāmba, son of Vasu, 4.19.14

Kuśanābha, son of Kuśa, 4.7.5

Kuśasthalī, city, 4.1.43; 4.1.68, 71; 4.2.1

Kuśeśaya, mountain range, 2.4.41

Kuṣīdin, sage, 3.6.6

kūṣmāṇḍas, demigods, 5.5.20

assail Dhruva, 1.12.13–31

Kusumoda, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Kuthumi, sage, 3.6.6

Kuvalayāpīḍa, elephant, 5.12.21; 5.15.11, 17; 5.20.22, 30; 5.29.5

Kuvalayāśva, son of Bṛhadaśva, 4.2.21

Kuvalayāśva, son of Divodāsa, 4.8.7

labour

ceases, 1.15.2

forced, 2.13.51

origins of, 1.6.20

Lakṣmaṇa, son of Daśaratha, 4.4.49, 56; 4.24.68

Lakṣmaṇā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.5; 5.32.4

Lakṣmī

appears to Balarāma, 5.25.15–17

as bride, 1.8.30

as feminine entities, 1.8.34

as invocation svadhā, 1.8.23

as light, 1.8.29

as love, 1.8.32

as mother of world, 1.8.29

as night, 1.8.30

as rivers, 1.8.31

as vine, 1.8.29

as Viṣṇu’s complement, 1.8.16–34

benefits of praising, 1.9.143–146

praised by Indra, 1.9.115–130

praised by Parāśara, 1.8.16–34

sanctuary of, 2.2.46

see also Śrī

Lālābhakṣa, hell realm, 2.6.3, 16

Lambā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Lambana, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Lambodara, son of Śātakarṇi, 4.24.11

Lāṅgali, sage, 3.6.6

Lava, son of Rāma, 4.4.58

Lavaṇa, hell realm, 2.6.2, 13

Lavaṇa, rākṣasa, son of Madhu, 1.12.4; 4.4.55

Lekhas, deities, 3.1.27

Leśa, son of Suhotra, 4.8.3

liars, hell for, 2.6.25

libations, 3.11.27–30

for all beings, 3.11.33–37

for sun, 3.11.39

liberated beings, 2.6.34

liberation, 1.7.44; 2.3.25; 2.6.35; 4.4.47; 6.4.5; 6.5.57; 6.7.29–3, 93, 100, 104; 6.8.41

Bhārata as place of, 2.3.2, 4–5, 25

seed of, 2.6.44

life

before agriculture, 1.13.86

family, 4.2.41–42

goals of, 1.18.21; 3.9.26; 3.11.7; 6.8.3

previous, recalled, 2.13.33, 36; 3.7.9; 3.18.63–87 passim; 5.24.3; 5.31.11; 6.5.13

life, stages of, 3.8.19–20, 3.9.1–33; 3.18.37

duties neglected, 2.6.32; 6.1.10

lifespan, 2.4.15; 6.1.39

on Puṣkara, 2.4.78

light, 5.2.10, 19

Liṅga Purāṇa, 3.6.22

lion

and Syamantaka 4.13.12–15

avatāra, 5.17.11

frightens deer, 2.13.14

granted sovereignty, 1.22.7

liquor, 1.17.7–11; 5.1.86; 5.25.5–7

hell for drinkers of, 2.6.9

hell for sellers of, 2.6.20

see also drunkenness

literature, as form of Viṣṇu, 1.22.81

living beings

as Viṣṇu, 1.22.36–37

creation of, 1.5.1–55

Lohitas, deities, 3.2.34

Lokākṣi, sage, 3.6.6

Lokāloka, mountain range, 2.4.94–95; 2.8.82

lower realms, 2.5.2–12

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

Atala, 2.5.2

Gabhastimat, 2.5.2

inhabitants of, 2.5.4–12

Mahākhya, 2.5.2

Nārada’s account of, 2.5.5–12

Nitala, 2.5.2

Pātāla, 1.4.11; 1.9.109; 2.5.2–20 passim; 4.4.14; 5.1.72; 6.3.19, 24; 6.4.12; 6.8.47

qualities of, 2.5.10–11

Rasātala, 4.3.4, 7

Sutala, 2.5.2

Viṣṇu as, 6.8.25

Vitala, 2.5.2

Lunar Dynasty, see dynasty—Lunar

lunar mansions, height of, 2.7.6–7

Madana, god of love, 5.26.12

Madayantī, 4.4.44–45

Mādhava, month, 2.10.5

Madhu, clan, 4.11.10

Madhu, Daitya, 1.12.3

Madhu, month, 2.10.4

Madhu, sage, 3.1.28

Madhu, site of Dhruva’s austerities, 1.12.2–3

Madhu, son of Devakṣatra, 4.12.17

Madhu, son of Paraśurāma, 4.11.9

Madhu, son of Vṛṣa, 4.11.10

Madhucchanda, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Madhurā, city, 1.12.4; 4.4.55

Madhus, Vedic text, 3.15.2

Madhusūdana, see Viṣṇu

Madirā, goddess of wine, 5.25.3–4

Madirā, wife of Vasudeva, 4.15.11, 13

Madra, king of, 5.28.4

Madraka, son of Śibi, 4.18.1

Madras, people, 2.3.18

Mādrī, wife of Pāṇḍu, 4.20.11; 5.32.4

Magadha, kings of, 4.19.13–14; 4.23.1; 4.24.15; 5.23.9–10

Magadha, region, 5.22.2

Māgadha, sage, 3.2.44

Magadha Guptas, dynasty, 4.24.15

Magadhas, people, 2.3.16; 2.4.69

Magas, community, 2.4.69

Maghā, lunar mansion, 4.24.26

Māgha, month, 2.10.16–17; 3.14.13–19; 3.16.19

magic, 1.19.14–25; 3.6.14

black, hell for, 2.6.15

to protect infant, 5.5.13

Mahābhadra Lake, 2.2.25

Mahābhārata, 3.4.5

Mahābhārata war, 5.37.2–3

Mahābhoja, son of Satvata, 4.13.1, 5

mahābuddhi, great intellect, 6.4.30

Mahādeva, name of Rudra, 1.8.6

Mahādhṛti, son of Vibudha, 4.5.11

Mahādruma, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Mahājvāla, hell realm, 2.6.2, 12

Mahākhya, lower realm, 2.5.2

Mahāmanas, son of Mahāśāla, 4.18.1

Mahāmuni, sage, 3.1.22

Mahānābha, son of Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.21.3

Mahānandin, son of Nandivardhana, 4.24.2

Mahānta, son of Dhīmant, 2.1.38

Mahāpadma, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.21

rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

Mahāpadma, son of Mahānandin, 4.24.3, 4

Mahāraurava, hell realm, 1.6.41

Maharloka, upper realm, 1.3.23; 2.7.12, 20; 6.3.28

Mahāroman, son of Kṛtirāta, 4.5.11

Mahāśāla, son of Janamejaya, 4.18.1

Mahasvant, son of Amarṣa, 4.4.60

mahat, principle of Greatness, 2.7.24–25, 34; 3.3.24; 6.4.13, 28–29, 33

Mahāvīra, son of Savana/region, 2.4.73, 80

Mahāvīrya, son of Bhavanmanyu, 4.19.7

Mahāvīrya, son of Bṛhaduktha, 4.5.11

Mahendra, mountain range, 2.3.3, 13

Mahendra, star, 2.12.34

Māhendras, people, 4.24.15

Mahī River, 2.4.43

Mahiṣa, mountain range, 2.4.27

Māhiṣakas, people, 4.24.15

Mahiṣmant, son of Sāhaṃji, 4.11.4

Māhiṣmatī, city, 4.11.8

Maithilas, kings, 4.5.13

Maitreya

satisfaction of, 6.8.5–11

to relate Viṣṇu Purāṇa to Śinīka, 6.8.50

Maitreya, asks about

Bāṇa’s limbs, 5.32.9–10

Bhrgu’s offspring, 1.10.1

Dakṣa’s birth, 1.15.79–80

destruction of Yādavas, 5.37.5

dissolution, 6.1.1–2

‘foolish’ Bharata, 2.13.1–6

future Manvantaras, 3.2.1

Kali age, 6.1.8

Kṛṣṇa, 5.1.1–3

Lunar Dynasty, 4.6.1–2

Manvantaras, 3.1.1–4

‘nakedness’, 3.17.3–4

origin of divine beings, 1.15.84

origin of Śrī, 1.8.15

parārdhas, 6.3.3

Pracetases, 1.14.8, 21

Prahlāda’s trials, 1.16.1–16

Priyavrata’s descendants, 2.1.1–4

Śiśupāla, 4.15.1–3

sun’s energy, 2.11.1–5

the Absolute, 1.22.41

the earth, 2.2.1–3

the world, 1.1.1–11; 1.7.35

upper realms, 2.7.1–2

Veda-vyāsa, 3.3.1–3

Vena, 1.13.10

worship of Viṣṇu, 3.8.1–2

yoga, 6.6.4

Mālavas, people, 2.3.17

Malaya, mountain range, 2.3.3, 13

Mālyavant, mountain range, 2.2.26, 38

Māṃdhātṛ, son of Yuvanāśva, 4.2.32–38, 42–95; 4.3.1–2; 4.24.59, 67

etymology, 4.2.33

Mammatā, wife of Utathya, 4.19.3

Mānasa, see Mount Mānasa

Mānasa, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Mānasa Lake, 2.2.25

Mānasas, community, 2.4.69

Mānasottara, mountain range, 2.4.74–76; 2.8.8

Manasyu, son of Mahānta. 2.1.38

Manasyu, son of Pravīra, 4.19.1

Mandagas, community, 2.4.69

Mandara, see Mount Mandara

Mandata, see Mount Mandata

Mandehas, community, 2.4.38

Mandehas, rakṣasas, 2.8.49–56

Māṇḍukeya, sage, 3.4.19

Maṇīcaka, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Maṇidhānakas, dynasty, 2.24.15

manifest principle, vyakta, 1.4.14–18, 25; 6.4.35

Maṇika, rain god, 3.11.44

Maṇipura, kingdom, 4.20.12

Mañjakeśa, sage, 3.6.13

Manmatha, god of love, 5.27.27, 29

Manoharā, wife of Dhara, 1,15,113

Manojava, king of gods, 3.1.26

Manojava, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Manojavā River, 2.4.55

mansions, see lunar mansions—height of

mantras, 3.6.13; 3.11.83; 6.2.16

for Viṣṇu, 1.11.54–56

to repel rākṣasas, 3.15.31

twelve-syllable, 1.6.40

Manu

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.24

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.30

lineage of, 4.1.3–5

patriarch, 1.7.14–16

patriarch, divides Vedas, 3.3.11

reestablished line of, 4.24.38–39

sacrifices to Mitra and Varuṇa, 4.1.9–11

Manu, sage, 6.5.63

Manu, son of Cākṣusa, 1.13.3

Manu, son of Sun, 4.1.7

Manuga, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Manus

fourteen, 1.1.7; 3.1.6–7; 3.2.47

preservers of world, 1.7.34

Manu Svāyaṃbhuva, see Svāyaṃbhuva

Manvantaras, 1.1.7; 1.3.16–22; 3.1.5–44; 3.2.50

future, 3.2.1–45

see also Cākṣuṣa; Svārociṣa; Vaivasvata; Vārāha

mare, Saṃjñā takes form of, 3.2.6

Mārgaśīrṣa, month, 2.10.13

Mārīca, rākṣasa, 4.4.50

Mārīca Kaśyapa, 1.15.129

Marīci

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.22

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s agency, 1.22.32

cause of creation, 1.7.33

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.42

creative energy of, 1.22.33

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5; 1.10.6; 1.18.14, 22; 1.21.8

relates story of Durvāsas, 1.9.1

Marīcigarbhas, deities, 3.2.21

Māriṣā, daughter of forest, 1.15.7–72

birth of, 1.15.46–51

former life, 1.15.60–71

marries Pracetases, 1.15.72

wife of Śūra, 4.14.7

Mārkaṇḍeya Purāṇa, 3.6.21

Mārkaṇḍeya, sage, 1.10.4

marriage, 3.9.8; 3.10.13–26

debased, 6.1.11, 18

forms of, 3.10.24

Mars, 2.12.18

height of, 2.7.7–8

Mars, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Mārṣimant, son of Sāraṇa, 4.15.12

Mārṣṭi, son of Sāraṇa, 4.15.12

Mārtikāvata Bhojas, 4.13.5

Maru, founder of kṣatriya dynasties, 4.24.37, 38, 40

Maru, son of Haryaśva, 4.5.11

Maru, son of Śīghraga, 4.4.60

Marubhūmi, kingdom, 4.24.15

Marudeva, son of Supratīka, 4.22.3

Maruts, deities, 1.9.68; 4.1.28; 4.11.1; 5.17.8; 5.20.92; 5.30.61; 5.37.16

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18; 6.7.56

etymology of, 1.21.39–41

origin of, 1.21.30–41

realm of, 1.6.35

soma sacrifice to, 4.19.3

sons of Dharma and Marutvatī, 1.15.106

sovereignty over, 1.22.4

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.63

see also winds

Marutta, son of Avikṣi, 4.1.26–29

Marutta, son of Karaṃdhama, 4.16.1

Marutvatī, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

massage oil, 5.20.1–8; 6.1.53

Mathurā, city, 4.24.15; 5.3.16; 5.15.24; 5.18.9–26 passim; 5.19.8, 10, 12; 5.20.15; 5.21.31; 5.22.3–15 passim; 5.23.8, 15; 5.24.6; 5.38.34–35; 6.8.31, 34, 36

Matsya, son of Vasu, 4.19.14

Matsya Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Maudga, sage, 3.6.10

Maudgalyas, clan, 4.19.14

Maunas, dynasty, 4.24.12

Mauneyas, gandharvas, 4.3.4

Maurya, dynasty, 4.24.6–7

Māvella, son of Vasu, 4.19.14

Māyāvatī, wife of Śambara, 5.27.6–29 passim

meals, conduct during, 3.11.70–97

meat, 1.16.1; 3.11.83, 118; 3.13.11; 4.2.10; 4.3.15; 4.4.32; 5.1.86

hell for sale of, 2.6.20

Medhas, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 9

Medhātithi, lord of Plakṣadvīpa, 2.4.3

Medhātithi, sage, 3.2.23

Medhātithi, son of Kaṇva, 4.19.1, 8

Medhātithi, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 12

Medhāvin, son of Sunaya, 4.21.3

meditation, 3.11.6; 6.2.17; 6.7.30

practice of, 6.7.69–96

Meghapuṣpa, Kṛṣṇa’s steed, 4.13.31

Meghasvāti, son of Divīlaka, 4.24.11

Mejaya, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Mekalas, dynasty, 4.24.14

men, 5.32.20

become greedy, 6.1.21–22

Menā, daughter of Vahnayas, 1.10.19–20

Menā, mother of Umā, 1.8.13

Menakā, rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

mendicants, 3.9.11, 13, 24–33; 3.10.15; 3.11.66–67; 3.18.38; 4.2.92; 6.1.37

heaven for, 1.6.37

unvirtuous conduct of, 6.1.33

menstruation, 3.16.13

Mercury, 2.12.16

height of, 2.7.7

Mercury, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

merit, 1.11.19–23; 5.38.72; 6.2.15

Meru, see Mount Meru

Merudevī, wife of Nābhi, 2.1.26

metres

creation of, 1.5.53–56

Vedic, 2.8.7

see also Anuṣṭubh; Bṛhatī; Gāyatrī; Jagatī; Uṣṇih

milk, 6.1.53

sustains the world, 1.13.90–91

Milky Ocean, see Ocean of Milk

millet, 6.1.53

Mīmāṃsā, see philosophy

Mīnaratha, son of Anenas, 4.5.12

mind, 5.30.9

refuge of, 6.7.46–96

Mithi, etymology, 4.5.11

Mithilā, kingdom, 4.5.13; 4.13.32

Mitra, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.131

curses Urvaśī, 4.6.24

deity, 4.1.9–11; 4.5.6

rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

Mitra, star, 2.12.33

Mitrasaha, son of Sudāsa, 4.4.27, 42

Mitravindā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.3

Mitrāyu, purāṇic sage, 3.6.17

Mitrāyu, son of Devodāsa, 4.19.14

Mlecchas, 4.24.15, 20

mokṣa, see liberation

months, 2.8.81; 6.3.9

moon, 1.17.3, 87; 2.5.8; 4.24.22; 5.30.45

arises from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

bathed by Gaṅgā, 2.2.32

carriage of, 2.12.1–3

churned from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.95

deity, addresses Pracetases, 1.15.5–71

food offering for, 3.11.46

height of, 2.7.5–6

horses of, 2.12.1–3

movement of, 2.12.1

nourishes ancestors, 3.15.55

offering to, 3.15.27

phases of, 2.11.22–23; 2.12.4–15

rays of, 2.7.3

receives girls from Dakṣa, 1.15.76, 103

releases rain, 2.9.9

sustains life with nectar, 2.12.14–15

washed by Gaṅgā, 2.8.111

see also Soma

mortals, 6.8.52

one month for, 6.1.4

one year for, 6.1.4

Mount Āmbikeya, 2.4.62

Mount Dundubhi, 2.4.7, 51

Mount Gandhamādana, 2.2.41; 5.24.5; 5.37.32

Mount Govardhana, 5.12.2; 5.13.1–4, 27; 5.20.34

raised by Kṛṣṇa, 5.11.13–25; 5.15.1

worshipped, 5.10.38–49

Mount Kailāsa, 2.2.41; 2.5.17

Mount Kesarī, 2.4.62

Mount Kolāhala, 3.18.73

Mount Mānasa, 2.8.6

Mount Mandara, 1.9.76, 82, 88; 2.2.17; 5.29.10, 34; 5.30.1; 5.36.12

Mount Mandata, 2.4.41

Mount Meru, 1.2.56; 1.10.3; 2.1.19, 21; 2.2.7–45 passim; 2.1.19, 21; 2.8.19–20, 112; 3.5.4; 5.1.12, 66; 6.8.26

Mount Nīla, 1.4.26; 2.1.19; 2.2.11, 38, 40

Mount Puruṣottama, 1.15.52

Mount Śṛṅgavant, 2.8.73–74

Mount Supārśva, 2.2.17

Mount Vaibhāja, 2.4.7

Mount Vipula, 2.2.17

mountains, 6.7.57

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

change shape, 5.10.34–35

sacrifice to, 5.10.36–49

Mṛdu, son of Nṛpaṃjaya, 4.21.3

Mṛdura, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Mṛgavyādha, a Rudra, 1.15.123

Mṛkaṇḍu, scion of Bhṛgu, 1.10.4

Mṛkaṇḍu, son of Vidhātṛ, 1.10.3

Mṛtyu, divides Vedas, 3.3.12

Mṛtyu, Lord of Death, 1.13.11

Mucukunda, son of Māṃdhātṛ, 4.2.37

blessed by Kṛṣṇa, 5.24.1–3

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.23.18–46

Mudgala, sage, 3.4.22

Mudgala, son of Haryaśva, 4.19.13–14

Muhūrtā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

muhūrta, unit of time, 1.3.8; 2.8.59; 6.3.9

Muhūrtas, sons of Dharma and Muhūrtā, 1.15.107

Mukhyas, deities, 3.2.15

Mūlaka, son of Aśmaka, 4.4.46

Muṇḍas, dynasty, 4.24.12

Muni, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.25

Muni, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Munika, minister, 4.24.1

murder, hell for, 2.6.23

Muru, demon, 5.29.16–19

musical instruments, 2.5.11

Mūṣika, settlement, 4.24.15

Muṣṭika, wrestler, 5.15.7, 16; 5.20.17, 29–68 passim

myths, 5.1.38

Nabha, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

Nābhāga, sage, 3.2.27

Nābhāga, son of Manu, 4.1.8

Nabhaga, son of Nābhāga, 4.2.5

Nābhāga, son of Nediṣṭa, 4.1.20

Nābhāga, son of Śruta, 4.4.26

Nābhāga, son of Vaivasvata, 3.1.33

Nabhas, month, 2.10.9; 3.14.12; 5.1.78

Nabhas, son of Nala, 4.4.58

Nābhi, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 17, 26

Nāciketas, Vedic text, 3.15.2

nāḍikā, unit of time, 6.3.7–9

Naḍvalā, wife of Manu, 1.13.4

Nāga, mountain range, 2.2.29

Nāga, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.22

Nāgadvīpa, region, 2.3.7

nāga kings

grant Narmadā a boon, 4.3.9

supplicate Viṣṇu, 4.3.5

nāga women, honour Śeṣa, 2.5.25

nāgas, divine serpents, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 4.3.4–12; 5.32.21; 5.37.50; 6.5.7; 6.7.66; 6.8.14

as forms of Viṣṇu, 3.17.23; 5.1.19; 6.8.23

attend Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.7

dynasty, 4.24.15

guide solar carriage, 2.10.21; 2.11.17

nature of, 5.7.69–71

qualities of, 3.17.23

realms of, 2.5.4–12

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

seize poison from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.95

worship Śeṣa, 2.5.24

see also Kāliya; serpents; Śeṣa; snakes; Ulūpī

Nāgavīthī, son of Dharma and Jāmī, 1.15.107

Nāgnajitī, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.3

Nahuṣa, son of Āyus, 4.6.4; 4.8.2; 4.24.50

Naigameya, son of Agni, 1.15.115

Naimiṣa, forest, 3.14.18

Naimiṣikas, community, 4.24.15

Naiṣadha, region, 2.1.18

Naiṣadhas, community, 4.24.15

Naiṣadhas, dynasty, 4.24.14

nakedness, 4.6.30–39 passim

in philosophical sense, 3.17.3–6; 3.18.36, 38–52

Nakta, son of Pṛthu, 2.1.37

Nakula, son of Pāṇḍu, 3.7.8, 36; 4.14.10; 4.20.11; 5.35.28; 5.38.91

Nala, son of Niṣadha, 4.4.26, 58

Nala, son of Yadu, 4.11.3

Nalinī, wife of Ajamīḍha, 4.19.13

Nalinī River, 2.4.65

names, selection of personal, 3.10.8–11

Namuci, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

Nanda, cowherd, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13, 17; 4.24.24, 31; 5.15.18; 5.18.11, 23

addressed by Vasudeva, 5.5.1–6

as father of Kṛṣṇa, 5.6.6, 21; 5.7.22, 24, 34

at sacrifice of Indra, 5.10.42; 5.11.3

attends wrestling match, 5.20.27, 71

brings tribute for Kaṃsa, 5.3.19

praises Hari, 5.5.14–21

praises Indra, 5.10.17–24

Nanda, treasure, 4.2.63

Nandana, forest, 2.2.24; 5.30.29

Nandana, Indra’s heaven, 5.7.64

Nandas, dynasty, 4.24.5

Nāndīmukhas, spirits, 3.10.6; 3.13.4–6

Nandīśa, Śiva’s bull, 5.33.28

Nandivardhana, son of Janaka, 4.24.1

Nandivardhana, son of Udāvasu, 4.5.11

Nandivardhana, son of Udayana, 4.24.2

Nandiyaśas, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

Nara, son of Bhavanmanyu, 4.19.7

Nara, son of Gaya, 2.1.37

Nara, son of Sudhṛti, 4.1.31

Nara, son of Tāmasa, 3.1.19

Nara, son of Uśīnara, 4.18.1

Nara and Nārāyaṇa, sages, 5.24.5; 5.37.32, 35

see also Nārāyaṇa

Nārada, divine sage, 4.9.9; 5.23.6; 5.27.24; 5.33.10; 5.37.6

account of lower realms, 2.5.5–12

addresses Haryaśvas, 1.15.90–93

addresses Śabalāśvas, 1.15.96

cursed by Dakṣa, 1.15.101

explains Pradyumna’s origin, 5.27.8–11

informs Kaṃsa of infant exchange, 5.15.3

informs Kaṃsa of Kṛṣṇa’s advent, 5.1.67–68

lauds Keśin’s death, 5.16.18–28

rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Nārada, mountain range, 2.4.7

Nārada Purāṇa, 3.6.21

Naraka, Daitya, 5.1.24; 5.12.21; 5.30.4; 5.31.13; 5.36.2–3

slain by Kṛṣṇa, 5.29.1; 5.29.20–21, 29

Naraka, son of Vipracitti, 1.21.12

naras, creation of, 1.5.59

Narasiṃha, 1.20.32

see also avatāra; lion; Nṛsiṃha

Nārāyaṇa, 2.9.23–24; 4.6.5; 5.1.14

creates world, 1.4.1–7

grants boon to Dhanvantari, 4.8.4

origin of name, 1.4.6

reposes on Śeṣa, 1.3.24

see also Kṛṣṇa; Nara and Nārāyaṇa—sages; Viṣṇu

Nārāyaṇa, son of Bhūmitra, 4.24.11

Nārāyaṇa, star, 2.12.32

Nārīkavaca, etymology of, 4.4.46

Nārīkavaca, son of Mūlaka, 4.4.46

Nariṣyanta, son of Manu, 4.1.8

Nariṣyanta, son of Marutta, 4.1.29

Nariṣyanta, son of Vaivasvata, 3.1.33

Narmadā, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.44

Narmadā River, 1.2.9; 2.3.11; 3.18.1; 4.3.6–13; 4.11.8

Nāsatya, deity, 4.14.10; 5.1.58

Navaratha, son of Bhīmaratha, 4.12.17

nectar

churned from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.96

of immortality, 1.9.75–109; 4.2.34; 5.2.19; 5.30.45

of moon, 2.12.6

Nediṣṭa, son of Manu, 4.1.8

Nidāgha, son of Pulastya, 2.15.2–2.16.20

Nidrā, see Yoganidrā

Nighna, son of Anamitra, 4.13.6

night, creation of, 1.5.32

nightmares, 6.8.41

see also dreams

Nikumbha, son of Haryaśva, 4.2.24

Nīla, see Mount Nīla

Nīla, son of Ajamīḍha, 4.19.13

nimeṣa, unit of time, 1.3.8; 2.8.59; 6.3.6

etymology, 4.5.7

Nimi, lineage of, 6.7.26

Nimi, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Nimi, son of Ikṣvaku, 4.2.9; 4.5.1–4.5.9

Nīpa, clan, 4.19.12

Nīpa, son of Pāra, 4.19.9

Nirāmaya, son of Dakṣasāvarṇi, 3.2.24

Niramitra, son of Ayutāyu, 4.23.2

Niramitra, son of Daṇḍapāṇi, 4.21.3

Niramitra, son of Nakula, 4.20.11

Nirmāṇaruci, deities, 3.2.30

Nirmoha, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.19; 3.2.40

Nirukta, sage, 3.4.24

Nirutsuka, sage, 3.2.40

nirvāṇa, 3.8.6; 3.18.17; 5.23.46; 6.7.21–22

Nirvindhyā River, 2.3.11

Nirvṛti, son of Vṛṣṇi, 4.12.17

Niṣadha, mountain range, 2.2.11–42 passim

Niṣadha, origin of, 1.13.33–37

Niṣadha, son of Atithi, 4.4.58

Niśaṭha, son of Balarāma, 5.25.19

Niścaknu, son of Adhisīmakṛṣṇa, 4.21.3

Niścara, sage, 3.1.11; 3.2.31

Niṣprakampa, sage, 3.2.40

Niśumbha, Daitya, 5.1.82

Nitala, lower realm, 2.5.2

nīti, see governance

Nivātakavacas, descendants of Prahlāda, 1.21.14

nivṛtti

and pravṛtti, 6.8.57

renunciation, 6.6.9–6.7.105

Nivṛtti River, 2.4.28

Niyati, Meru’s daughter, 1.10.3

nonviolence, 3.8.15

Northern Kurus, region, 2.2.14, 37

Nṛcakṣus, son of Ṛca, 4.21.3

Nṛga, son of Manu, 4.1.8

Nṛga, son of Uśīnara, 4.18.1

Nṛga, son of Vaivasvata, 3.1.33

Nṛpaṃjaya, son of Medhāvin, 4.21.3

Nṛsiṃha, 4.15.4, 5.5.16

see also Narasiṃha

Nyagrodha, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Nyāya, philosophy, 3.6.27

ocean

floods Dvārakā, 5.38.9

gives land for Dvārakā, 5.23.13

honours Kṛṣṇa, 5.21.25

of freshwater, 2.4.86, 93

of ghee, 2.4.45

of milk, 2.4.71–72

of syrup, 2.4.20, 24

of whey, 2.4.57–58

of wine, 2.4.33–34

Sāgara, 5.7.7

welcomes Balarāma, 5.37.51

Ocean of Milk, 1.9.37; 2.4.71–72; 3.17.10; 5.1.32

churning of, 1.9.74–146; 5.30.31, 44

honours Śrī, 1.9.102

Pracetases reside in, 1.14.18–1.15.2

oceans, 1.14.5–6; 2.8.24–25; 5.37.23, 34; 6.4.1, 4; 6.7.57

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

consecrate Pṛthu, 1.13.43

seven, 2.2.6; 2.4.87–91

Oḍra, region, 4.24.15

old age

suffering of, 6.5.27–36

swapped for youth, 4.10.1–22

Oṃ, sacred syllable, 1.4.22; 1.9.54, 70; 2.8.52–56; 3.5.18

as Absolute, 3.3.22–23

omens, 2.5.26; 5.37.28–31

orders, see communities

outcaste, 3.16.12; 4.3.15; 3.11.105

Padmā, wife of Vāmana, 1.9.140

Padma Purāṇa, 3.6.21, 25

Padmāvatī, city, 4.24.15

Pahlavas, tribe, 4.3.28, 31

Paila, disciple of Vyāsa, 3.4.8, 19

Pāka, demon, 1.21.36

Pālaka, son of Pradyota, 4.24.1

palāśa, tree, as Visṇu, 6.8.25

Pālita, son of Parāvṛt, 4.12.3

Pañcadaśa hymns, 1.5.54

Pañcahasta, son of Dakṣasāvarṇi, 3.2.24

Pāñcajana, conch, 5.21.29

Pañcajana, Daitya, 5.21.26; 5.29.19

Pāñcāla, people, 2.3.15

pañca-lakṣaṇa, 3.6.24; 6.8.2, 13

Pāñcālas, etymology, 4.19.13

Pāṇḍavas, sons of Pāṇḍu, 4.13.26; 4.20.10–12; 5.12.24

retire to forest, 5.38.91–92

Pāṇḍu, son of Vyāsa, 4.14.9–10; 4.20.10

cursed by deer, 4.20.11

Paṅkti, metre, 2.8.7

Pāpa, hell realm, 2.6.4

Pāra, son of Pṛthusena, 4.19.9

Pāra, son of Samara, 4.19.10

para, unit of time, 1.3.5, 27

Pāradas, tribe, 4.3.28, 31

Paramekṣu, son of Anu, 4.18.1

Parameṣṭhin, son of Indradyumna, 2.1.35

parārdha, unit of time, 1.3.5, 27; 6.3.2–5; 6.4.47

Pāras, deities, 3.2.21

Parāśara, sage, 3.4.18

divides Vedas, 3.3.18

praises Viṣṇu, 1.2.1–21

receives boon from Pulastya, 6.8.49

relates Viṣṇu Purāṇa to Maitreya, 6.8.49

Pārasīkas, people, 2.3.18

Paraśu, son of Uttama, 3.1.15

Paraśurāma, son of Jamadagni, 1.9.140; 4.4.51; 4.7.18; 4.11.9; 4.24.3

Pārāvatas, deities, 3.1.10

Parāvṛt, son of Rukmakavaca, 4.12.3

parenthood, premature, 6.1.41

Pārijāta, tree, 5.30.30–5.31.12 passim; 5.35.25

churned from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.93

returns to heaven, 5.38.7

Parīkṣit, son of Abhimanyu, 4.20.13; 4.24.24, 26, 30; 5.38.92

Parīkṣit, son of Kuru, 4.19.14

sons of, 4.20.1

Pariplava, son of Sukhibala, 4.21.3

Pāriyātra, mountain range, 2.2.42; 2.3.3, 10, 17

Pāriyātra, son of Ruru, 4.4.58

Parjanya, patriarch, 1.22.12

Parjanya, rain god, 1.17.87; 3.11.44; 4.20.9; 5.10.23; 6.1.51

rides solar carriage, 2.10.12

Parjanya, sage, 3.1.22

parrots, origin of, 1.21.16

partridges, sages become, 3.5.13

Parvata, son of Paurṇamāsa, 1.10.6

Pārvatī, wife of Śiva, 5.32.11–14

Paśupati, name of Rudra, 1.8.6

Pātāla, lower realm, 1.4.11; 1.9.109; 2.5.2–20 passim; 4.4.14; 5.1.72; 6.3.19, 24; 6.4.12; 6.8.47

Pataṅga, mountain range, 2.2.27

paternity, 4.19.2

disputed, 4.6.20

Pathya, sage, 3.6.9, 11

patriarchs

as aspects of Viṣṇu, 1.22.22, 24

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.29, 30, 32

creative energy of, 1.22.33

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

sovereignty over, 1.22.4

Pattalaka, son of Hāla, 4.24.11

Paṭumant, son of Meghasvāti, 4.24.11

Paṭumitra, Bāhlika king, 4.24.14

Paṭus, community, 4.24.15

Paulomas, Dānavas, sons of Pulomā and Mārīca, 1.21.9

Pauṇḍra, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.18.1

Pauṇḍraka, king, 5.26.7

Pauṇḍraka Vāsudeva, 5.34.4–27

Paura, dynasty, 4.24.13

Pauravas, descendants of Puru, 4.19.1–13

Pauravī, wife of Vasudeva, 4.15.11

Paurṇamāsa, son of Marīci, 1.10.6

Pauruṣeya, rākṣasa, 2.10.7

Pauṣa, month, 2.10.14–15

Pauṣpiñji, sage, 3.6.4, 6

Pāvaka, son of Abhimānin, 1.10.15

Pavamāna, son of Abhimānin, 1.10.15

Pavitrā River, 2.4.43

Pavitras, deities, 3.2.43

Payoṣṇī River, 2.3.11

peacocks, 5.10.3

king reborn as, 3.18.83

personal grooming, 3.12.3

perspiration, Māriṣā born of, 1.15.46–51

pestle, 5.37.9–13, 63

phalaśruti, see rewards of hearing

Phālguna, month, 2.10.17–18; 3.14.13

phantoms, 5.27.18–19, 28; 5.33.36–37

raised by Kūṣmāṇḍas, 1.12.14–31

raised by Śiva, 5.34.31–39

raised by Viṣṇu, 3.17.41–3.18.32

philosophy

Advaita, 1.17.83–92; 1.22.85; 2.13.37–38; 2.15.1–2.16.25; 3.11.54

Mīmāṃsā, 3.6.27

Nyāya, 3.6.27

Sāṃkhya, 3.3.26

pigs, hell for feeding, 2.6.21

pilgrimage, 3.9.12–13

pimps, hell for, 2.6.11, 22

piṇḍa, 6.8.38–39

see also food—offerings

Piṇḍāraka, sacred site, 5.37.6

pipal, tree, 2.2.18; 2.4.18

Pippalāda, sage, 3.6.10

Piśācas, demons, 1.19.67; 6.5.7

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.19

creation of, 1.5.58

Pitara, marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.24

Pītās, community, 2.4.30

pitṛs, 1.22.5

see also ancestors

Pitṛyāna, ancestors’ path, 2.8.85–86

Pīvara, sage, 3.1.18

Pīvara, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

plakṣa, tree, 2.4.18

Plakṣadvīpa, continent, 2.1.12; 2.4.1–20

communities of, 2.4.16–17

mountains of, 2.4.7

rivers of, 2.4.11

rulers of, 2.4.3–4

worship on, 2.4.19

planets

as Viṣṇu, 6.7.56; 6.8.23

chariots of, 2.12.16–24

heights of, 2.7.7–9

see also individual planets

plants, 4.6.6; 5.23.35

as Viṣṇu, 3.17.29; 6.8.25

creation of, 1.5.6, 50

for sacrifice, 1.6.23–27

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.57

origin of 1.21.24

perish, 1.13.66–68; 1.15.3–4

qualities of, 3.17.29

sustained by moon, 2.12.9–15

see also individual plants

Pliades, see Kṛttikās

poetry, as form of Viṣṇu, 1.22.83

poison, 1.18.1–8; 4.3.11, 19, 24

poisoners, hell for, 2.6.22

Pole Star, 1.12.90–96; 2.8.6, 98

height of, 2.7.10

population, need for, 1.14.9–17, 47–49

portraits, 5.32.20–21

possessiveness, futility of, 4.24.42–70

potters, hell for, 2.6.27

Prabhā, daughter Svarbhānu, 1.21.7

Prabhākara, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Prabhāsa, a Vasu, 1.15.110

Prabhāsa, location, 5.21.24; 5.37.29, 36

Pracetas, son of Durdama, 4.17.2

Pracetases, sons of Prācīnabarhis, 1.14.6

accept Māriṣā as their wife, 1.15.72

ask about Kaṇḍu’s song of praise, 1.15.54

behold Viṣṇu, 1.14.46–49

contemplate Viṣṇu, 1.14.19–20

destroy all vegetation, 1.15.3–4

praise Viṣṇu, 1.14.22–43

receive boon, 1.14.47–49

reside in Ocean of Milk, 1.14.18–1.15.2

undertake austerities, 1.14.7; 1.14.18–20

Prācīnabarhis, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2–5

demands sons, 1.14.9–17

Pracinvant, son of Janamejaya, 4.19.1

pradhāna, primordial matter, 2.7.25, 29, 31

Pradyota, son of Munika, 4.24.1

Pradyumna, son of Kṛṣṇa, 4.15.20; 5.18.58; 5.26.12; 5.27.1–31; 5.28.6–7; 5.32.6, 22; 5.33.12–50 passim; 5.37.41

defeats Śambara, 5.27.17

sons of, 4.15.20

Prāgjyotiṣa, city, 5.29.8–19 passim

Praheti, rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Prahlāda, son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.15.142; 1.21.14

achieves liberation, 1.20.1–8, 34

addressed by Daitya priests, 1.18.10–13

addresses Daitya priests, 1.18.14–40

attacked by apparition, 1.18.28–34; 1.19.14–25

attacked by serpents, 1.17.37–40

becomes Daitya king, 1.20.32–34

burned alive, 1.17.45–47

called before Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.10–15

cast from palace roof, 1.19.10–13

cast into ocean, 1.19.50–62

emerges from ocean, 1.20.6

granted sovereignty, 1.22.4

instructs Daitya boys, 1.17.54–92

praises Viṣṇu, 1.17.14–30 passim; 1.17.54–92; 1.18.14–40; 1.19.34–49; 1.19.63–86; 1.20.9–13

qualities of, 1.15.143, 155–156

receives boons from Viṣṇu, 1.20.17–28

reconciled with Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.20.29–31

strength of, 1.19.3–9

struck by weapons, 1.17.32–36

studies governance, 1.19.26–27

swallows poison, 1.18.1–8

trials of, 1.15.144–156

praise

Balarāma praised by Kṛṣṇa, 5.9.22–33

Devakī praised by deities, 5.2.6–20

Kṛṣṇa praised by Aditi, 5.30.6–23

Kṛṣṇa praised by Balārāma, 5.7.35–42

Kṛṣṇa praised by herdsmen, 5.13.1–8

Kṛṣṇa praised by Kāliya, 5.7.58–74

Kṛṣṇa praised by Kāliya’s wives, 5.7.48–57

Kṛṣṇa praised by Mucukunda, 5.23.18–46

Kṛṣṇa praised by Vasudeva, 5.20.82–92

Kṛṣṇa–Viṣṇu praised by Akrūra, 5.17.1–17, 26–13

Lakṣmī praised by Indra, 1.9.115–130

Lakṣmī praised by Parāśara, 1.8.16–34

of Viṣṇu, 1.17.14–30 passim

Viṣṇu praised by Akrūra, 5.18.48–58

Viṣṇu praised by Brahmā, 5.1.34–51

Viṣṇu praised by deities, 3.17.11–34

Viṣṇu praised by Earth, 5.1.12–20

Viṣṇu praised by Kaṇḍu, 1.15.55–58

Viṣṇu praised by Pracetases, 1.14.22–43

Viṣṇu praised by Prahlāda, 1.18.14–40; 1.19.34–49; 1.20.9–13, 15–17

Prajāni, son of Prāṃśu, 4.1.23

Prajāpati, realm of, 6.2.27

Prajāsarga, ‘progeny creation’, 1.21.28

prakṛti, primordial substance or nature, 2.7.26; 5.2.7; 6.1.3; 6.4.33–34, 39

Pralamba, Daitya, 5.1.24; 5.4.1–2; 5.13.4; 5.15.1

destroyed by Balarāma, 5.9.1–38

Pramathas, Śiva’s minions, 5.33.13, 24, 27; 5.34.40

Pramati, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.47–48

Pramlocā, apsaras

dismissed by Kaṇḍu, 1.15.45

distracts Kaṇḍu, 1.15.13–43

rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

sent by Indra to Kaṇḍu, 1.15.12

Prāṃśu, son of Manu, 4.1.8

Prāṃśu, son of Vatsupri, 4.1.22

Prāṇa, sage, 3.1.11

Prāṇa, son of Dhara, 1.15.113

Prāṇa, son of Dhātṛ, 1.10.3

Prāpti, daughter of Jarāsandha, 5.22.1

Prasena, son of Nighna, 4.13.6, 12–15, 28

Prasenajit, son of Kṛśāśva, 4.2.24

Prasenajit, son of Rāhula, 4.22.3

Prastāva, son of Udgītha, 2.1.36

Prasuśruta, son of Maru, 4.4.60

Prasūtas, deities, 3.1.27

Prasūti, daughter of Svāyaṃbhuva, 1.7.16–17

Pratardana, son of Divodāsa, 4.8.6

Pratardanas, deities, 3.1.14

Pratibāhu, son of Vajra, 4.15.20

Pratibandhaka, son of Maru, 4.5.11

Pratihāra, son of Parameṣṭhin, 2.1.35

Pratiharta, son of Pratihāra, 2.1.36

Pratikṣatra, son of Kṣatravṛddha, 4.9.14

Pratikṣatra, son of Śamin, 4.14.5

Pratīpa, son of Dilīpa, 4.20.4

Pratiṣṭhāna, city, 4.1.17

Pratītāśva, son of Bhānuratha, 4.22.3

Prativāha, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Prativindhya, son of Yudhiṣṭhira, 4.20.11

Prativyoma, son of Vatsavyūha, 4.22.2

Pratyagra, son of Vasu, 4.19.14

Pratyūṣa, a Vasu, 1.15.110

Pravaha, cosmic force, 2.12.28

Pravillasena, son of Pattalaka, 4.24.11

Pravīra, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

Pravīra, son of Haryaśva, 4.19.13

Pravīra, son of Pracinvant, 4.19.1

pravṛtti, 6.6.9–6.7.105

Prayāga, locality, 4.24.15; 6.8.29

Prayakṣa, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.2

prayer

after meals, 3.11.90–97

as form of worship, 3.8.10

for benefit of all beings, 3.11.33–37

for protection, 5.5.14–21

primogeniture, 1.11.6–10

primordial nature, see prakṛti

primordial spirit, see spirit—primordial

prison guards, hell for, 2.6.11

Prīti, wife of Pulastya, 1.10.9

Priyavrata, son of Manu Svāyaṃbhuva, 1.7.16; 1.11.1; 3.1.25

descendants of, 2.1.4–8

divides seven continents, 2.1.11

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.42

retires to Śālagrāma, 2.1.23

progeny, see population—need for

prosperity, 1.13.50

Pṛṣadaśva, son of Anaraṇya, 4.3.14

Pṛṣadaśva, son of Virūpa,

Pṛṣadhra, son of Manu Vaivasvata, 3.1.34; 4.1.8, 18

Pṛṣata, son of Somaka, 4.19.14

Pṛthā, wife of Pāṇḍu, 4.14.8–10; 4.18.5

Pṛthivī, etymology, 1.13.59

Pṛthu, sage, 3.1.18

Pṛthu, son of Anenas, 4.2.20

Pṛthu, son of Citraka, 4.14.2

Pṛthu, son of Pāra, 4.19.10

Pṛthu, son of Parāvṛt, 4.12.3

Pṛthu, son of Prastāva, 2.1.37

Pṛthu, son of Vena, 1.13.8–10; 4.24.64; 5.37.41

as father of Earth, 1.13.89

as manifestation of Viṣṇu, 1.13.45

born from Vena’s hand, 1.13.38–39

consecration of, 1.13.43–47

enables civilisation, 1.13.83–87

gives Earth a calf, 1.13.87

levels the world, 1.13.82–85

milks grain from earth, 1.13.87

petitioned by subjects, 1.13.67–68

praised by bard, 1.13.52–65

qualities of, 1.13.49–50, 61–65

searches for Earth, 1.13.69–95

sons of, 1.14.1

Pṛthudāna, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pṛthugas, deities, 3.1.27

Pṛthujaya, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pṛthukarman, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pṛthukīrti, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pṛthulākṣa, son of Caturaṅga, 4.18.3

Pṛthusena, son of Rucirāśva, 4.19.9

Pṛthuśravas, son of Dakṣasāvarṇi, 3.2.24

Pṛthuśravas, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pṛthuyaśas, son of Śaśabindu, 4.12.2

Pulaha, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.7.5; 1.10.10

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.47

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Pulastya, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.1.22–31; 1.7.5; 1.10.9

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.45

grants boon to Parāśara, 6.8.49

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.23

rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Pulimant, son of Gomatīputra, 4.24.11

Pulindaka, son of Ārdraka, 4.24.9

Pulindas, community, 4.24.15

Pulomā, daughter of Vaiśvānara, 1.21.8

Puloma, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.5

Pulomāvi, son of Candraśrī, 4.24.11

puṃs, see spirit—primordial

Punarvasu, lunar mansion, 3.14.8

Punarvasu, son of Abhijit, 4.14.4

Puṇḍarīka, son of Nabhas, 4.4.58

Puṇḍarīkā River, 2.4.55

Puṇḍarīkavant, 2.4.50

Puṇḍra, region, 4.24.15

Puṇḍras, people, 2.3.16

Puñjikasthalā, rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Puṇyajanas, rakṣasas, 4.2.1–2

Puraṃjaya, son of Śaśāda, 4.2.14, 16–19

Puraṃjaya, son of Sṛñjaya, 4.18.1

Puraṃjaya, son of Vindhyaśakti, 4.24.14

purāṇas, texts, 1.7.6, 41; 3.4.10; 3.6.15–27

Pūrṇotsaṅga, son of Śrīśātakarṇi, 4.24.11

Purojava, son of Anila, 1.15.114

Pūru, son of Cākṣuṣa, 3.1.29

Puru, son of Manu, 1.13.5

lineage of, 4.19.1–13

Puru, son of Yayāti, 4.10.4, 9–10, 20, 22

Puruhotra, son of Anuratha, 4.12.17

Purujānu, son of Suśānti, 4.19.13

Purukutsa, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 1.2.9; 6.8.44

Purukutsa, son of Māṃdhātṛ, 4.2.37

Purukutsa, son of Yuvanāśva, 4.3.5–8, 12–13

Purumīḍha, son of Hastin, 4.19.8

Purūravas, son of Budha, 4.1.13, 17

affair with Urvaśī, 4.6.24–50

Purūravas, son of Ilā, 3.14.11

puruṣa, primordial spirit, 1.2.67; 6.4.39

puruṣārtha, see life—goals of

Puruṣottama, see Mount Puruṣottama

puruṣottama, 1.22.25

see also spirit—supreme

Pūrvabhādrapadā, lunar mansion, 3.14.9

Pūrvacitti, apsaras, 2.10.14

Pūrvāṣāḍhā, lunar mansion, 4.24.31

Pūṣan, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130; 5.16.7

rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

supplicates Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

Puṣkalas, community, 2.4.53

Puṣkara, continent, 2.1.15; 2.4.71–86

inhabitants of, 2.4.78–82, 92

location, 6.8.29

lunar mansion, 2.8.26

mountains of, 2.4.74

qualities of, 2.4.83–84

regions of 2.4.73, 76–77, 84

rulers of, 2.4.73

Puṣkara, son of Bharata, 4.4.58

Puṣkara Lake, 1.22.87

Puṣkaras, community, 2.4.53

Puṣkarin, son of Durukṣaya, 4.19.8

Puṣkariṇī, wife of Cākṣusa, 1.13.3

Puṣpamitra, commits regicide, 4.24.8

Puṣpavant, mountain range, 2.4.41

Puṣpavant, son of Ṛṣabha, 4.19.14

Puṣya, lunar mansion, 3.14.8

Puṣya, son of Hiraṇyanābha, 4.4.60

Puṣyamitra, Bāhlika king, 4.24.14

Pūtanā, Daitya, 5.4.2; 5.5.7–11, 23; 5.6.23; 5.15.2; 5.20.33; 5.29.5

Putra, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 9

Pūyavaha, hell realm, 2.6.4, 19

qualities, see guṇas

Raghu, son of Dīrghabāhu, 4.4.49

Raghu, son of Yadu, 4.11.3

Rāhu, Daitya, 2.12.22; 4.8.1

assists Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.19.52

Rāhula, son of Śuddhodana, 4.22.3

rain

failure of, 6.1.51

properties of, 2.9.18–22; 5.10.19–24

source of, 2.8.104–107; 2.9.8; 2.10.23; 2.11.24

Raivata, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Raivata, Manu, son of Priyavrata, 3.1.6, 20–24, 40

Raivata, son of Revata, 4.1.44–50, 73; 4.2.1; 5.36.11

Raivataka, mountain range, 2.4.62

Raja, son of Viraja, 2.1.39

Rājādhidevī, daughter of Śūra, 4.14.8, 10

rājan, etymology of, 1.13.48, 93

Rajas, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13; 1.22.11

Rājasas, deities, 3.1.40

rājasūya, coronation sacrifice, 4.6.7

Rājavant, son of Dyutimant, 1.10.5

Raji, son of Āyus, usurps Indra, 4.9.1–9

Rājyavardhana, son of Dama, 4.1.30

Rākā, daughter of Aṅgiras, 1.10.8

rākṣasas, demons, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.2.47; 3.15.31; 4.11.1; 5.2.16; 5.5.20; 6.5.7; 6.8.14

as forms of Viṣṇu, 3.17.20; 5.1.19; 6.8.23

assail Dhruva, 1.12.23–31

attack Kuśasthalī, 4.2.1

attend sun, 2.10.20; 2.11.16

creation of, 1.5.41–43, 59

eat Parāśara’s father, 1.1.14–16

origin of, 1.21.25

qualities of, 3.17.20

Rāma slays, 4.4.54

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

Saudāsa becomes one, 4.4.26–42

swallow the sun, 2.8.49–56

Rāma, sage, 3.2.17

Rāma, son of Daśaratha, 1.9.141; 4.4.49–58; 4.14.12; 4.15.6; 4.24.66, 68

Rāmacandra, son of Puraṃjaya, 4.24.14

Ramaṇ, son of Dhara, 1.15.113

Rāmas, people, 2.3.18

Rambhā, apsaras, 5.38.73, 77

rides solar carriage, 2.10.8, 18

Rambha, serpent, 5.18.37

Rambha, son of Āyus, 4.8.2; 4.9.14

Ramya, mountain range, 2.4.62

Ramya, region, 2.2.14

Ramya, son of Āgnīdhra, 2.1.16, 19

Raṇaṃjaya, son of Kṛtaṃjaya, 4.22.3

Rantideva, son of Saṃkṛti, 4.19.7

Rantināra, son of Ṛteyu, 4.19.1

Rasātala, lower realm, 4.3.4, 7

Rāṣṭrapāla, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Rāṣṭrapālī, daughter of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Ratha, rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

Rathacitra, rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

Rathakṛt, yakṣa, 2.10.3

Rathantara, hymns, 1.5.53

Rathasvana, rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

Rathaujas, rides solar carriage, 2.10.5

Rathītara, son of Pṛṣadaśva, 4.2.6–7

Rati, goddess of beauty, 5.27.27, 29

Rātri River, 2.4.55

Raucya, future Manu, 3.2.37

Raudra, lunar mansion, 3.14.8

Raudrāśva, son of Ahaṃyāti, 4.19.1

Raurava, hell realm, 1.6.41; 2.6.2, 7

Rāvaṇa, rākṣasa, 4.3.14; 4.4.54; 4.14.11–12; 4.15.1, 5–6; 4.24.68

bound by Arjuna Kārtavīrya, 4.11.8

Ṛbhu

instructs Nidāgha, 2.15.2–2.16.20

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.42

ṛc verses, 3.4.12–13

Ṛca, son of Sunītha, 4.21.3

Ṛces, Vedic verses as deities, 1.15.136

Ṛcīka, sage, 4.7.7–9

realms, 1.22.78; 5.2.15

Bhūrloka, 2.7.11, 16

Bhuvarloka, 2.7.17

Brahmaloka, 6.4.5

Candrabhāga, 4.24.15

Dāvikorvī, 4.24.15

Janaloka, 1.3.25; 1.4.10, 27–28, 30; 2.7.13–14, 19; 6.3.29; 6.4.5

of Brahmā, 1.6.37; 2.7.15; 3.9.33; 4.2.1

of Daityas and Dānavas, 2.5.4–12

of gandharvas, 1.6.35

of Indra, 1.6.34

of Maruts, 1.6.35

of nāgas, 2.5.4–12

of Prajāpati, 6.2.27

of Śeṣa, 2.5.13–27

of Viṣṇu, 1.6.38–40; 2.8.98–107

of Yama, 2.6.6

ordained, 6.2.22, 27–29

Satyaloka, 2.7.15, 19

Svarloka, 2.7.18

Tapoloka, 2.7.14–15, 19

see also earthly realm; hell realms; lower realms; sky—realm of; upper realms

reason, role of, 3.18.30–31

rebirth, 3.7.6; 6.5.51; 6.7.19

as a fish, 4.2.42

in Jambūdvīpa, 2.3.23, 26

in various forms, 3.18.62–87 passim

noble, 5.24.3

of Bharata as a brahmin, 2.13.5–634

of Bharata as a deer, 2.13.33, 36

of Hiraṇyakaśipu, 4.14.10–11

of Manmatha, 5.27.27

Recompense, daughter of Ruci, 1.7.17–18

reeds, 5.37.11, 39–44

Budha born in, 4.6.14

religion, abandoned, 4.3.30–32

Renown, mother of Śrī, 1.8.15

Renown, wife of Bhṛgu, 1.8.14

Reṇukā, daughter of Reṇu, 4.7.18

renunciation, see nivṛtti—renunciation

reproduction, modes of, 1.15.78

Revanta, son of Sun, 3.2.7

Revata, son of Ānarta, 4.1.43

Revatī, daughter of Raivata, 4.1.45–73

Revatī, wife of Balarāma, 5.25.19; 5.36.11; 5.38.3

rewards of hearing (phalaśruti)

Bharata narrative, 2.16.25

Dakṣa’s daughters, 1.10.21

Dhruva’s rise to heaven, 1.12.101–2

Ikṣvāku’s lineage, 4.4.61

Indra’s victory, 4.9.13

Jyāmagha’s lineage, 4.12.17

Kṛṣṇa’s absolution, 4.13.57

Manu’s lineage, 4.1.5; 4.24.58–59

origins of Yadu clan, 4.15.26

Prahlāda narrative, 1.20.35–39

praise of Lakṣmī, 1.9.143–146

Pṛthu narrative, 1.13.94–95

Saubhari’s deeds, 4.2.95

Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 1.22.86–88; 6.8.1–41

Yadu’s lineage, 4.11.2

Ṛg Veda, 2.8.7; 3.4.8, 13; 6.1.10; 6.5.65

branches of, 3.4.16–26

creation of, 1.5.53

lights the world, 2.11.10

see also Vedas

riddles, 1.9.46–48; 1.15.56

Ripu, son of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.2

Ripuṃjaya, son of Suvīra, 4.19.13

Ripuṃjaya, son of Viśvajit, 4.23.2; 4.24.1

Ripuñjaya, son of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.2

rituals, 6.6.9–6.7.104–105

birth, 3.10.4–7; 3.13.1–4

funerary, 3.13.7–39

morning, 3.11.25–57

neglected, 3.18.39–49, 98; 6.1.10, 11

regular and occasional, 3.10.2–3

sandhyā, 2.8.53; 3.11.98–103

rivers

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

bathe Śrī, 1.9.101

consecrate Pṛthu, 1.13.43

see also individual rivers

Ṛjudāsa, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Ṛkṣa, mountain range, 2.3.11

Ṛkṣa, scion of Bhṛgu, 3.3.18

Ṛkṣa, son of Ajamīḍha, 4.19.14

Ṛkṣa, son of Devātithi, 4.20.3

Ṛkṣparvata, mountain range, 2.3.3

Ṛṇjaya, divides Vedas, 3.3.15

Rodha, hell realm, 2.6.2, 8

Rohiṇī, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.4; 5.32.2

Rohiṇī, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Rohiṇī, wife of Vasudeva, 4.15.11–14; 5.1.74; 5.2.2; 5.5.5; 5.6.11

Rohita, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Rohitāśva, son of Hariścandra, 4.3.17

Romaharṣaṇa, bard, 3.4.10; 3.6.16–18

Romapāda, son of Dharmaratha, 4.18.2

Romapāda, son of Vidarbha, 4.12.16

royal emissary, hell for killers of, 2.6.10

royal insignia, 1.11.18

Ṛṣabha, mountain range, 2.2.29

Ṛṣabha, sage, 3.1.11

Ṛṣabha, son of Kuśāgra, 4.19.14

Ṛṣabha, son of Nābhi, 2.1.26–30

Ṛṣikulyā River, 2.3.14

Ṛśyaśṛṅga, sage, 3.2.17

Ṛta, son of Vijaya, 4.5.12

Ṛtadhvaja, son of Divodāsa, 4.8.7

Ṛtajit, rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

Ṛteyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Ṛtudhāman, king of gods, 3.2.33

Ṛtujit, son of Añjana, 4.5.12

Ṛtuparṇa, son of Ayutāyu, 4.4.26

Rucaka, mountain range, 2.2.27

Ruci, marries Ākūti, 1.7.17

Ruciradhī, son of Saṃkṛti, 4.19.7

Rucirāśva, son of Senajit, 4.19.9

Rudhirāmbhas, hell realm, 2.6.3

Rudhirāndha, hell realm, 2.6.23

Rudra, deity, 2.5.19; 4.6.11, 16; 5.17.8; 5.20.92

arises from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as Sāma Veda, 2.11.13

as Visṇu, 1.22.26; 3.17.26; 6.8.22

as Viṣṇu’s energy, 1.22.31; 2.11.12–13

born of Brahmā, 1.7.10

contemplates Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

created by Brahmā, 1.8.2

destroys world, 6.3.16–25

eight stations of, 1.8.7

eight wives of 1.8.8–9

forms of, 1.7.12–13; 1.8.1–7

half-man, half-woman, 1.7.10–12

marries Satī, 1.8.12

origin of names, 1.8.3–7

qualities of, 3.17.26

son of Viśvakarman, 1.15.121

sons of, 1.8.9–11

see also Śiva

Rudras, deities, 1.15.122–124; 3.1.31; 4.11.1; 5.1.58; 5.30.60; 5.37.16

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18; 6.7.56

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

Rukmakavaca, son of Śitapu, 4.12.3

Rukmeṣu, son of Parāvṛt, 4.12.3

Rukmin, son of Bhīṣmaka, 5.26.1–11 passim; 5.28.8–28 passim

Rukmiṇī, daughter of Bhīṣmaka, 5.26.1–11 passim

Rukmiṇī, sons of, 5.28.2

Rukmiṇī, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 1.9.141; 4.15.19; 5.27.21–31 passim; 5.28.27; 5.30.34; 5.32.6; 5.38.2

Ruru, son of Ahīnagu, 4.4.58

Ruruka, son of Vijaya, 4.3.17

Ruṣadratha, son of Titikṣu, 4.18.1

Ruṣaṅku, son of Svāhi, 4.12.1

Śabalāśvas, sons of Dakṣa, 1.15.95–100

Sabhānara, son of Anu, 4.18.1

Śacī, wife of Indra, 5.30.26, 5.30.38–50 passim

sacred thread, 2.13.39; 3.9.1; 4.3.25; 4.24.17

sacrifice, 2.3.20–22; 2.7.11; 2.9.20–21; 3.6.13; 4.5.1–4; 5.17.6; 6.2.17–20; 6.4.41, 42

as form of worship, 3.8.10

Brahmā invents, 1.5.50

cāturhotra, 3.4.11

conduct of, 3.11.23–24

error in, 4.1.10

fire, 4.6.49

forbidden by Vena, 1.13.14–25

function of, 1.6.7–10, 27–31

opposed, 1.6.30–31

opposed in Buddhism, 3.18.17, 26–28

rājasūya, 4.6.7

son of Ruci, 1.7.17

sustains world, 2.8.106

vows as protection, 4.13.36

see also horse-sacrifice; ritual action

sacrificers, 5.4.11

hell for rustics, 2.6.23

sacrifices, hell for unworthy, 2.6.18

sacrificial fee, 4.1.28; 6.6.38, 42–44

Sadaśva, son of Samara, 4.19.10

Sādhyā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Sādhyas, divine beings, 1.9.68; 5.30.61; 5.37.16

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18; 6.8.22

sons of Dharma and Sādhyā, 1.15.106

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.63

Sāgara, etymology of, 4.4.23

Sāgara, ocean, 5.7.7

Sagara, son of Bāhu, 3.17.1; 4.3.25–4.4.1; 4.24.59, 68

asks about rituals, 3.10.1–2

etymology, 4.3.24

instructed by Aurva, 3.8.3–3.16.28

sons of, 2.8.115; 4.4.4

sages, 2.6.34; 2.7.17; 4.7.4; 4.11.1; 5.18.46; 6.8.15

as form of Viṣṇu, 3.2.56; 3.17.24

become partridges, 3.5.13

classes of, 3.6.29

curse Yādava boys, 5.37.9

kill Vena, 1.13.27–29

libations for, 3.11.27–28

massage Vena’s hand, 1.13.38

massage Vena’s thigh, 1.3.33

path of, 2.8.86–89

praise Kṛṣṇa, 5.31.8

praise sun, 2.10.20; 2.11.16

qualities of, 3.17.24

reestablish Vedic tradition, 2.8.87

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2

sages, seven, see Seven Sages

Sahadevā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Sahadeva, son of Divākara, 4.22.2

Sahadeva, son of Harṣavardhana, 4.9.14

Sahadeva, son of Jarāsandha, 4.19.14; 4.23.2

Sahadeva, son of Pāṇḍu, 4.14.10; 4.20.11; 5.35.28; 5.38.91

Sahadeva, son of Sṛñjaya, 4.1.37

Sahajanyā, rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

Sāhaṃji, son of Kunti, 4.11.4

Sāhasra Saṃhitā, compilation, 3.6.3

Sahasrajit, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Sahasrajit, son of Yadu, 4.11.3

Sahiṣṇu, son of Pulaha, 1.10.10

Sahya, mountain range, 2.3.3, 12

Śaibya, Kṛṣṇa’s steed 4.13.31

Śaibyā, wife of Jyāmagha, 4.12.4–15

Śaibyā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.3

Śaibyā, wife of Śatadhanu, 3.18.53–104

Saindhava, sage, 3.6.12–13

Saindhavas, people, 2.3.17

Śaineyas, lineage, 4.14.1

Śainyas, people, 4.19.7

Śaka, dynasty, 4.24.12

śāka, tree, 2.4.63

Śaka, tribe, 4.3.28, 31

Śākadvīpa, continent, 2.1.14; 2.4.58–72

communities of, 2.4.64, 69

inhabitants of, 2.4.68

mountains of, 2.4.61–62, 66

rivers of, 2.4.64–67

rulers of, 2.4.59–60

worship of Viṣṇu on, 2.4.70

Śākala, region, 2.3.17

Śākalya, sage, 3.4.21

Śākapūṇi, sage, 3.4.23

Śākha, son of Agni, 1.15.115

Śakti, divides Vedas, 3.3.18

Śaktimant, mountain range, 2.3.14

Śakuni, son of Daśaratha, 4.12.17

Śakuni, son of Hiraṇyākṣa, 1.21.3

Śakuni, son of Ikṣvaku, 4.2.9

Śakuntalā, daughter of Viśvāmitra, 4.19.1–2

Śākya, son of Saṃjaya, 4.22.3

Śala, son of Dhṛtarāṣṭra, 5.35.28

śāla, tree, 3.7.25

Śālagrāma, village, 2.1.23, 33; 2.13.4–7, 34

Śāliśūka, son of Saṃgata, 4.24.7

Śālīya, sage, 3.4.22

Śālmaladvīpa, continent, 2.1.13; 2.4.21–34

communities of, 2.4.29–31

mountains of, 2.4.25–27

regions of, 2.4.29

rivers of, 2.4.27–28

rulers of, 2.4.22–23

worship on, 2.4.31

śālmali, tree, 2.4.32

salt, hell for selling, 2.6.20

Śālva, king, 5.26.7

Sālvas, people, 2.3.17

Śalya, son of Somadatta, 4.20.10

Śalya, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

samādhi, perfect union, 6.7.33, 35, 91

sāman hymns, 3.4.12–13

Samara, son of Nīpa, 4.19.9

Sāma Veda, 1.4.25; 1.8.21; 3.4.9, 13; 4.19.11; 6.1.10

branches of, 3.6.1–8

creation of, 1.5.55

inauspicious recitation of, 2.11.13

lights the world, 2.11.10

singers of, 3.6.4–5

Sāmba, son of Kṛṣṇa, 4.15.20; 5.32.2; 5.35.4–38; 5.37.41

dressed as woman, 5.37.7

Śaṃbala, village, 4.24.20

Śambara, Daitya, 5.26.12; 5.27.1–28 passim

Śambara, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4

Śambara, sorcerer, 1.19.14–18

Śaṃbhu, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Śaṃbhu, son of Bhavya, 1.13.1

Saṃbhūta, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.40

Saṃbhūta, son of Trasadasyu, 4.3.14

Saṃbhūtī, mother of gods, 3.1.40

Saṃbhūti, wife of Marīci, 1.10.6

Saṃdaṃśa, hell realm, 2.6.4, 28

Saṃdhyā River, 2.4.55

Saṃgata, son of Daśaratha, 4.24.7

Saṃgrāmajit, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.3

Saṃhitāśva, son of Nikumbha, 4.2.24

Saṃhlāda, son of Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.15.142; 1.21.1

śamī, tree, 4.6.47; 6.1.52

Śamīka, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Śamin, son of Śūra, 4.14.5

Saṃjaya, son of Pratikṣatra, 4.9.14

Saṃjaya, son of Raṇaṃjaya, 4.22.3

Saṃjaya, son of Supārśva, 4.5.12

Saṃjñā, wife of the Sun, 3.2.2–8

Saṃkalpa, born of Dharma and Saṃkalpā, 1.15.108

Saṃkalpā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Śaṃkara, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4

Saṃkarṣaṇa, 2.5.19

see also Balarāma

Saṃkarṣaṇa, etymology, 4.15.15; 5.1.76

Sāṃkāśī, kingdom, 4.5.11

Sāṃkhya, philosophy, 3.3.26

Saṃkṛti, son of Jayatsena, 4.9.14

Saṃkṛti, son of Nara, 4.19.7

Saṃmada, king of fish, 4.2.40–42, 85

Saṃmati River, 2.4.43

Samrāj, daughter of Priyavrata, 2.1.5

Śāṃśapāyana, sage, 3.6.17–18

saṃsāra, cyclical existence, 2.13.34; 3.7.37; 3.8.1; 6.7.20; 6.8.41

Saṃtāna, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Śāṃtanu, son of Pratīpa, 4.19.14; 4.20.4–9, 10

etymology, 4.20.5

Saṃtardana, son of Kaikeya king, 4.14.10

Saṃvaraṇa, son of Ṛkṣa, 4.19.14

Saṃvartakas, clouds, 5.11.1–10, 22, 23; 6.3.30–40

Saṃvatsara, star, 2.12.33

Saṃyamanī, Yama’s city, 2.8.9

Saṃyāti, son of Bahugava, 4.19.1

Saṃyāti, son of Nahuṣa, 4.10.1

Sanaka, siddha, 1.4.10; 6.4.5

Sanandana, son of Brahmā, 1.7.7; 2.7.13; 5.18.42; 6.7.50

praises Viṣṇu, 1.4.27–44

Sanatkumāra, son of Brahmā, 3.14.11–30

sandhyā, rituals, 2.8.53; 3.11.98–103

see also twilight

Sāndīpani, son rescued, 5.21.18–31

Śaṅkaśveta, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.21

Śaṅkhakūṭa, mountain range, 2.2.29

Śaṅkhanābha, son of Vajranābha, 4.4.58

Śaṅkhapada (Śaṅkhapād), guardian of south, 1.22.10; 2.8.83

Śaṅkhapāla, rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

Śaṅku, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Śaṅkuśiras, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.4

Sannateyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Sannati, son of Alarka, 4.8.9

Sannati, wife of Kratu, 1.10.11

Sannatimant, son of Sumati, 4.19.11

Sanskrit, spoken, 2.13.40

Śāntā, daughter of Daśaratha, 4.18.2

Śāntabhaya, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.3, 5

Śāntahaya, son of Tāmasa, 3.1.19

Śānti, king of gods, 3.2.26

Śānti, son of Nīla, 4.19.13

Śāntidevā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Saptadaśa hymns, 1.5.55

Sāraṇa, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Sārasvata, sage

divides Vedas, 3.3.13

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 1.2.9, 6.8.43

Sarasvatī River, 3.14.18

Śarmiṣṭhā, daughter of Vṛṣaparvan, 1.21.7

Śarmiṣṭhā, wife of Yayāti, 4.10.3–4

Śārṅga, bow, 5.22.6; 5.30.22, 61

Sarpa, rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

Śarva, a Rudra, 1.8.6; 1.15.123

Sārvabhauma, son of Vidūratha, 4.20.3

Sarvadharman, son of Dharmasāvarṇika, 3.2.32

Sarvaga, son of Dharmasāvarṇika, 3.2.32

Sarvakāma, son of Ṛtuparṇa, 4.4.27

Sarvapāpaharā River, 2.4.43

Śaryāti, son of Manu Vaivasvata, 3.1.33; 4.1.8, 41

Śaśabindu, son of Citraratha, 4.2.37; 4.12.1

Śaśāda, son of Ikṣvāku, 4.2.12–13

Śāśvata, son of Upagu, 4.5.12

Śatabhiṣaj, constellation, 3.14.15

Śatabhiśak, lunar mansion, 3.14.9

Śatadhanu, king, 3.18.53–104

Śatadhanu, son of Hṛdika, 4.14.6

Śatadhanvan, son of Somaśarman, 4.13.24–34, 47, 53; 4.24.7

Śatadrū River, 2.3.10; 3.14.18

Śatadyumna, son of Bhānumant, 4.5.11

Śatadyumna, son of Manu Cākṣuṣa, 1.13.5; 3.1.29

Śatajit, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Śatajit, son of Raja, 2.1.39

Śatajit, son of Sahasrajit, 4.11.4

Śātakarṇi, son of Pūrṇotsaṅga, 4.24.11

Śātakarṇin, son of Pulimant, 4.24.11

Śatakratu, king of gods, 3.1.17

Śatānanda, son of Śaradvat, 4.19.14

Śatānika, son of Nakula, 4.20.11

Śatānīka, son of Vasudāna, 4.21.3

Śatarupā, wife of Svāyaṃbhuva, 1.7.15

Śatasaṃkhyas, deities, 3.2.25

Śatāyus, son of Purūravas, 4.7.1

Śaṭha, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.12

Satī, wife of Rudra, 1.8.12

enraged by Dakṣa, 1.8.12

reborn as Umā, 1.8.13

see also Umā

Satrājita, son of Nighna, 4.13.6–52 passim; 5.28.4

Śatrughna

slays Bhojas, 4.13.37

slays Lavana, 1.12.4

Śatrughna, son of Daśaratha, 4.4.49, 55, 56

Śatrughna, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Śatrujit, son of Divodāsa, 4.8.6

Saturn, 2.12.20

height of, 2.7.9

Saturn, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Saturn, son of Sun, 3.2.4

Satuṣitas, deities, 3.1.10

Satvata, son of Aṃśu, 4.12.17

Sātvatas, people, 4.12.17

Satya, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.38

Satyā, mother of gods, 3.1.38

Satya, sage, 3.2.23, 27

Satyā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.3

Satyabhāmā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 4.13.24, 27, 52–56; 4.15.19; 5.28.4; 5.29.14, 35; 5.30.26–27, 29; 5.32.1

desires Pārijāta tree, 5.30.32–5.31.12 passim

Satyadhṛti, son of Dhṛtimant, 4.19.11

Satyadhṛti, son of Mahāvīrya, 4.5.11

Satyadhṛti, son of Sāraṇa, 4.15.12

Satyadhṛti, son of Śatānanda, 4.19.14

Satyadhvaja, son of Śuci, 4.5.12

Satyahita, son of Puṣpavant, 4.19.14

Satyajit, son of Sunīta, 4.23.2

rides solar carriage, 2.10.18

Satyaka, son of Raivata, 3.1.23

Satyaka, son of Śini, 4.14.1

Satyakarman, son of Dhṛtivrata, 4.18.5

Satyaketu, sage, 3.2.27

Satyaketu, son of Dharmaketu, 4.8.9

Sātyaki, son of Satyaka, 4.14.1; 5.37.41

Satyaloka, realm, 2.7.15, 19

Satyaratha, son of Mīnaratha, 4.5.12

Sātyarathi, son of Satyaratha, 4.5.12

Satyas, deities, 3.1.14, 16, 38

Satyavant, son of Manu, 1.13.5

Satyavatī, daughter of Gādhi, 4.7.7–18

Satyavatī, wife of Śāṃtanu, 4.20.10

Satyavrata, son of Trayyāruṇa, 4.3.14

Saubhari, sage, 4.2.39–95

honours Viṣṇu, 4.2.88–90

Saudāsa Sahadeva, son of Sudāsa, 4.19.14

becomes a rākṣasa, 4.4.27–42

Śaulkāyani, sage, 3.6.10

Saumya, region, 2.3.7

Saumyas, ancestors, 2.12.11–13

Śaunaka, sage, 3.6.11–12; 4.21.2

Śaunaka, son of Gṛtsamadās, 4.8.3

Saunanda, mace, 5.22.7

Saurāṣṭra, region, 4.24.15

Saurāṣṭras, people, 2.3.16

Sauṣumṇa, solar ray, 3.5.17

Sauvīra, king of, 2.13.48–2.16.25 passim

Sauvīras, people, 2.3.17

Savaiḍūya, mountain range, 2.2.28

Savana, king of Puṣkara, 2.4.73

Savana, sage, 3.2.23

Savana, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 15

Savana, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13

Savarṇā, wife of Prācīnabarhis, 1.14.5

Sāvarṇi, etymology of, 3.2.13

Sāvarṇi, son of Rudra, 3.2.13–19; 3.2.4, 33; 3.6.17–18

Savitṛ, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.9.68; 1.15.131; 3.5.16–25

divides Vedas, 3.3.12

scriptures

debased, 6.1.14

learned from children, 2.6.29

Seen principle, see manifest principle

self, nature of, 2.13.58; 2.15.23–36; 2.16.1–25; 6.7.11–25, 92

semen, 3.15.11; 4.5.6; 4.19.2, 3

released, 1.7.31; 2.6.29

retained, 1.6.36; 1.10.11; 2.8.92

see also ejaculation

Senajit, rides solar carriage, 2.10.12

Senajit, son of Bṛhatkarman, 4.23.2

Senajit, son of Viśvajit, 4.19.9

serpent-ropes, 1.19.52, 55; 1.20.4; 5.33.9, 49

serpents, 4.11.1; 5.2.16; 5.18.46

attack Prahlāda, 1.17.37–40

creation of, 1.5.44–45

sovereignty over, 1.22.7

see also Dhanaṃjaya; Elāputra; Kambala; Karkoṭaka; Mahāpadma; nāgas; Śeṣa—serpent; snakes

service, 3.8.16

Śeṣa, serpent, 1.21.21; 3.2.51; 5.18.36; 5.35.3; 5.36.23; 5.37.49–51; 6.3.24

as Balarāma, 5.1.73; 5.25.1

as Viṣṇu, 2.5.13

granted sovereignty, 1.22.7

qualities of, 2.5.20–27

realm of, 2.5.13–27

shelters Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.17

worshipped by deities, 2.5.20–21

sesame, hell for selling, 2.6.20

settlement, origins of, 1.6.18–19

Setu, son of Babhru, 4.17.2

Seven Sages, 1.12.98; 2.8.110; 3.1.6–46 passim; 3.2.17–40 passim, 46; 4.4.48; 6.4.1

as Visṇu, 6.8.24

asterism, 4.24.25, 31

created by Brahmā, 1.21.28

height of asterism, 2.7.9–10

instruct Dhruva, 1.11.29–56

sexual intercourse, 1.15.88; 3.8.34; 3.11.113–126

hell for intemperate, 2.6.22

improper, 2.6.13; 5.38.37–38

interrupted, 4.4.41–42

sexual reproduction, origin of, 1.15.78

sheep, of Urvaśī, 4.6.30–38

shepherds, hell for, 2.6.26

shrubs, 5.30.12

Śibi, king of gods, 3.1.17

Śibi, son of Kuru, 1.13.6

Śibi, son of Saṃhlāda, 1.21.1

Śibi, son of Uśīnara, 4.18.1

siddhas, perfected beings, 1.9.92; 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.2.22, 45; 2.4.63; 2.7.17; 2.8.91; 4.6.32; 4.11.1; 5.18.46; 5.23.34; 5.29.9; 5.37.50; 6.4.5; 6.8.14

as Viṣṇu, 3.17.22; 6.8.23

attend Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.17.7–8

praise Kṛṣṇa, 5.31.8

praise Yoganidrā, 5.3.29

qualities of, 3.17.22

worship Śeṣa, 2.5.24

Śīghraga, son of Agnivarṇa, 4.4.60

Śikhaṇḍinī, wife of Antardhi, 1.14.1

Śikhī River, 2.4.11

Śikhivāsas, mountain range, 2.2.28

Siṃhikā, daughter of Diti, 1.15.141

Siṃhikā, wife of Vipracitti: 1.21.10

Sindhudvīpa, son of Ambarīṣa, 4.4.26

Sindhu River, 4.24.15

Śini, son of Anamitra, 4.14.1

Śini, son of Garga, 4.19.7

Śinī, son of Sumitra, 4.13.6

Śinīka, hears Viṣṇu Purāṇa from Maitreya, 6.8.50

Sinīvālī, daughter of Aṅgiras, 1.10.8

Śipraka, usurper, 4.24.11

Sīradhvaja, son of Hrasvaroman, 4.5.11

Śiśi, son of Sāraṇa, 4.15.12

Śiśira, mountain range, 2.2.27

Śiśira, sage, 3.4.22

Śiśira, son of Dhara, 1.15.113

Śiśira, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.3, 5

Śiṣṭi, son of Dhruva, 1.13.1

Śiśu, son of Sāraṇa, 4.15.12

Śiśuka, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

Śiśumāra, asterism, 2.9.1–6, 23; 2.12.29

Śiśunāga, son of Nandivardhana, 4.24.2

Śiśupāla, son of Damaghoṣa, 4.14.10–13; 4.15.2, 7–11; 5.26.3, 7

Sītā, daughter of Janaka, 1.9.141; 4.4.50, 54; 4.15.6

advent of, 4.5.11

Sītā River, 2.2.33–34; 2.8.113

Śītāmbha, mountain range, 2.2.26

Śitapu, son of Uśanas, 4.12.3

Śiva, deity, 1.9.68; 4.1.12; 5.4.4; 5.16.7; 5.30.10; 5.32.11; 5.33.1–4; 5.34.29

battles Kṛṣṇa, 5.33.8, 21–40

bears Gaṅgā, 2.8.114–115

bow of, 4.4.50

cannot comprehend Viṣṇu, 1.9.53

form of Viṣṇu, 5.1.30

grants Gārgya a boon, 5.23.3

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

manifests as Durvāsas, 1.9.2

offers prince a boon, 5.34.30–32

raises phantom, 5.34.31–39

seizes moon, 1.9.95

supplicates Viṣṇu, 1.9.62

see also Rudra

Śiva, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.4–5

Śivā, wife of Anila, 1.15.114

Śivā, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Śiva Purāṇa, 3.6.21

Śivā River, 2.4.43

Śivas, deities, 3.1.14

Śivaskandha, son of Śivaśrī, 4.24.11

Śivaśrī, son of Śātakarṇin, 4.24.11

Śivasvāti, son of Cakora Śātakarṇin, 4.24.11

Skanda, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Skanda Purāṇa, 3.6.23

sky, realm of, 2.7.4; 5.30.9

sleep, 3.11.110–112

smṛti, scriptures, 3.2.47

Smṛti, wife of Aṅgiras, 1.10.8

snakes, 5.30.12; 6.5.7; 6.7.64

as Visṇu, 6.8.25

mantra against, 4.3.9–11

sons of Kaśyapa, 1.21.19–20

see also nāgas; serpents

Snehas, community, 2.4.38

Solar Dynasty, see dynasty—Solar

Soma, deity, 1.10.8

a Vasu, 1.15.110; 4.6.5–22

and Māriṣā, 1.15.5–80 passim

city of, 2.8.8–9

conducts rājasūya, 4.6.7

granted sovereignty, 1.22.2

wives of, 1.15.133

see also moon

soma, oblation, 4.1.28; 4.19.3

hell for selling, 2.6.23

pressing of, 1.13.51

soma, plant, 3.15.5

Somadatta, son of Bāhlīka, 4.20.9; 5.35.28

Somadatta, son of Kṛśāśva, 4.1.38

Somaka, mountain range, 2.4.7

Somaka, son of Saudāsa Sahadeva, 4.19.14

Somapi, son of Sahadeva, 4.19.14; 4.23.2

Somaśarman, son of Śāliśūka, 4.24.7

Soma Śuṣmāyaṇa, divides Vedas, 3.3.17

son, desire for, 4.2.25; 4.4.45; 4.12.5; 4.19.6; 5.23.2

song, as form of Viṣṇu, 1.22.83

Śoṇita, city, 5.33.11

sovereigns, as aspects of Viṣṇu, 1.22.14–20

sovereignties, distributed by Brahmā, 1.22.1–13

space, 6.4.24–26

speech

correct, 3.12.34, 43–44

un-Sanskritic, 2.13.40

Sphūrja, rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

spirit, primordial, puṃs, 2.7.28, 29, 31; 2.13.87, 94; 2.15.22–24; 6.4.36, 39

see also puruṣa

spirit, supreme, puruṣottama, 1.2.28, 67; 1.12.59; 4.13.9; 4.14.13; 5.1.46; 5.17.6; 6.6.1

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.25

spiritual practice, unregulated, 6.1.13

śrāddha, oblation for ancestors, 3.14.1–3.16.20; 4.13.19

conduct of, 3.15.1–56

not to be witnessed, 3.16.12

opposed in Buddhism, 3.18.29–

suitable offerings for, 3.16.1–11, 15–16

see also rituals

Śrānta, son of Āpa, 1.15.111

Śrāvasta, son of Yuvanāśva, 4.2.20

Śrāvastī, city, 4.2.20

Śrī

ambiguous origin of, 1.9.138

as creation, 1.8.18

as daughter of Bhṛgu and Khyāti, 1.9.138

as mother of world, 1.8.16; 1.9.115, 123

as Sarasvatī, 1.9.116

as Satī, 1.9.145

as svadhā and svāhā, 1.9.116

as Vedas, 1.9.118

as Viṣṇu’s helper, 1.9.139–142

churned from Ocean of Milk, 1.9.98–105, 138

grants boon to Indra, 1.9.131–137

in Viṣṇu’s bosom, 1.9.103–104, 115, 125

origin of, 1.8.14–15

praised by Indra, 1.9.113–130

source of all prosperity, 1.9, 124–130

vows never to forsake world, 1.9.135

see also Lakṣmī

Śrīdāman, friend of Kṛṣṇa, 5.9.13

Śrīdevā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Śrīmant, king, 5.26.7

Śrīśātakarṇi, son of Kṛṣṇa, 4.24.11

Śrī-sūkta, hymn, 1.9.99

Śrīvatsa, whorl of hair, 1.22.67; 5.3.8; 5.18.41; 5.20.44; 5.34.17; 6.7.81

Śṛṅgavant, see Mount Śṛṅgavant

Śṛṅgavant, region, 2.1.21

Śṛṅgin, mountain range, 2.2.11

Sṛñjaya, son of Dhūmrāśva, 4.1.36

Sṛñjaya, son of Haryaśva, 4.19.13

Sṛñjaya, son of Kālānara, 4.18.1

Sṛñjaya, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Srotas, rides solar carriage, 2.10.9

Śruta, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.4

Śrutadevā, daughter of Śūra, 4.14.8, 10

Śrutakarman, son of Sahadeva, 4.20.11

Śrutakīrti, daughter of Śūra, 4.14.8, 10

Śrutakīrti, son of Arjuna, 4.20.11

Śrutaṃjaya, son of Senajit, 4.23.2

Śrutasena, son of Parīkṣit, 4.20.1; 4.21.1

Śrutasoma, son of Bhīmasena, 4.20.11

Śrutaśravas, daughter of Śūra, 4.14.8, 10

Śrutaśravas, son of Somapi, 4.19.14

Śrutavant, son of Somāpi, 4.23.2

Śrutāyus, son of Ariṣṭanemi, 4.5.12

Śrutāyus, son of Purūravas, 4.7.1

stages of life, see life—stages of

stallion, Sun takes form of, 3.2.7; 3.5.26

Stambha, sage, 3.1.11

Stambhamitra, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.43

stars, as Viṣṇu, 6.7.56; 6.8.23

Sthaleyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Sthaṇḍileyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

stranglers, hell for, 2.6.8

strategy, 5.22.16–17

students, 6.1.11

of religious studies, 2.6.29

Subāhu, rākṣasa, 4.4.50

Subāhu, son of Śatrughna, 4.4.58

Subala, son of Sumati, 4.23.2

Subhadrā, consort of Arjuna, 4.20.13

Subhadrā, wife of Aniruddha, 4.15.20

Subhāṣa, son of Sudhanvan, 4.5.12

Subhūmi, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Sucandra, son of Hemacandra, 4.1.36

Sucāru, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.2

Sucāru, son of Pratibāhu, 4.15.20

Succhā, wife of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.1

Śuci, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15, 17

Śuci, king of gods, 3,2,42

Śuci, month, 2.10.6–7

Śuci, sage, 3.2.44

Śuci, son of Abhimānin, 1.10.15

Śuci, son of Andhaka, 4.14.3

Śuci, son of Manu, 1.13.5

Śuci, son of Śatadyumna, 4.5.11

Śucināman, son of Vipra, 4.23.2

Śuciratha, son of Citraratha, 4.21.3

Sudarśana, see discus—Sudarśana

Sudarśana, son of Dhruvasaṃdhi, 4.4.60

Sudāsa, son of Cyavana, 4.19.14

Sudāsa, son of Sarvakāma, 4.4.27

Śuddhodana, son of Śākya, 4.22.3

Sudeṣṇa, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.1

Sudeva, son of Cañcu, 4.3.17

Sudeva, son of Devaka, 4.14.5

Sudhāman, guardian of world, 2.8.83

Sudhāman, sage, 3.1.22

Sudhāmans, deities, 3.1.14; 3.2.25

Sudhanus, son of Kuru, 4.19.14

Sudhanvan, guardian of the east, 1.22.9

Sudhanvan, son of Śāśvata, 4.5.12

Sudhanvan, son of Satyahita, 4.19.14

Sudharmā, assembly hall, 5.21.14–17; 5.35.24

returns to heaven, 5.38.7

Sudharmans, deities, 3.2.21, 38

Sudhis, deities, 3.1.16

Sudhṛti, son of Rājyavardhana, 4.1.31

Śūdra, region, 4.24.15

śūdras

as kings, 4.24.4

community, 3.8.12; 3.15.7; 4.24.3, 15, 35; 6.1.52

creation of, 1.6.5, 6

duties of, 3.8.32–33, 38

excellence of in Kali age, 6.2.7, 12, 23–24, 35

heaven for, 1.6.35

unvirtuous conduct of, 6.1.37

see also communities

Sudyu, son of Abhayada, 4.19.1

Sudyumna, son of Manu, 1.13.5; 4.1.11–17

suffering

escape from, 1.17.70–79

nature of, 6.5.1–56

Sugrīva, Kṛṣṇa’s steed, 4.13.31

Sugrīvī, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15, 17

Suhiṣṇu, sage, 3.1.28

Suhotra, son of Bṛhatkṣatra, 4.19.8

Suhotra, son of Kāñcana, 4.7.3

Suhotra, son of Kṣatravṛddha, 4.8.2

Suhotra, son of Sahadeva, 4.20.11

Suhotra, son of Sudhanus, 4.19.14

Suhya, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.18.1

suicide

threatened, 1.12.21

widow, 3.18.61, 93; 4.3.21; 4.4.43; 5.38.2–3

Sujāta, son of Bharata, 4.11.10

Sujyeṣṭha, son of Agnimitra, 4.24.9

Śuka, sage, 4.19.10

Sukanyā, daughter of Śaryāti, 4.1.41

Sūkara, hell realm, 2.6.2

Sukarman, sage, 3.6.2–3

Sukarmans, deities, 3.2.34, 38

Suketu, son of Nandivardhana, 4.5.11

Suketu, son of Sunītha, 4.8.9

Sukhā, Varunā’s city, 2.8.9

Sukhibala, son of Nṛcakṣus, 4.21.3

Sukhodaya, son of Medhātithi/region, 2.4.4–5

Śukī, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15–16

Śuklā River, 2.4.28

Śukra, month, 2.10.8

Śukra, sage, 3.2.44

Śukra, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2

Śukra, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13

Sukṛtā River, 2.4.11

Sukṛti, sage, 3.2.27

Sukṛti, son of Pṛthu, 4.19.10

Sukṣatra, son of Niramitra, 4.23.2

Sukṣetra, son of Brahmasāvarṇi, 3.2.28

Śuktimant, mountain range, 2.3.3

Sukumāra, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

Sukumāra, son of Jāmbavant, 4.13.12, 16

Sukumāra, son of Suvibhu, 4.8.9

Sukumārī River, 2.4.65

Sumālya, son of Mahāpadma, 4.24.5

Sumanas, mountain range, 2.4.7

Sumanas, son of Kuru, 1.13.6

Sumanases, deities, 3.2.34

Sumantu, disciple of Vyāsa, 3.4.9; 3.6.2–3, 8

Sumantu, son of Jahnu, 4.7.5

Sumati, sage, 3.6.17

Sumati, son of Bharata, 2.1.32

Sumati, son of Dṛḍhasena, 4.23.2

Sumati, son of Janamejaya, 4.1.39

Sumati, son of Rantināra, 4.19.1

Sumati, son of Supārśva, 4.19.11

Sumati, wife of Sagara, 4.4.1–4

Śumbha, Daitya, 5.1.82

Sumedhas, sage, 3.1.28

Sumedhases, deities, 3.1.21

Sumitra, son of Suratha, 4.22.3

Sumitra, son of Vṛṣṇi, 4.13.6

Sumodāki, son of Bhavya/region, 2.4.60

sun, 1.17.3, 87; 2.5.8; 3.2.2–10; 4.14.9; 4.24.22

as purifier, 3.18.41, 98

carriage of, 2.8.1–7; 2.10.1–23; 2.11.1–26

energy of, 2.11.1–26

grants boon to Yājñavalkya, 3.5.26–27

height of, 2.7.5

horses of, 2.8.7

in form of stallion, 3.2.7; 3.5.26

libation for, 3.11.39–40

movement of, 2.8.10–58, 89; 2.10.1

nourishes all beings, 2.11.25–26

praised by Yājñavalkya, 3.5.16–25

present in guest, 3.11.69

rays of, 2.7.3

replenishes moon, 2.12.4–5

son of Aditi, 4.1.7

supports the universe, 2.9.7–24

worship of, 3.11.8

see also Sūrya

Śunaḥśepa, son of Viśvāmitra, 4.7.19

Śunaka, sage, 6.6.16–19

Sunakṣatra, son of Marudeva, 4.22.3

Sunāman, brother of Kaṃsa, 5.20.78

Sunāman, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Sunaya, son of Pariplava, 4.21.3

Sunaya, son of Ṛta, 4.5.12

Sunda, Daitya, 5.1.24

Sundara Śātakarṇin, son of Pravillasena, 4.24.11

Śuṅga, dynasty, 4.24.7–10

Sunīta, son of Subala, 4.23.2

Sunītha, son of Sannati, 4.8.9

Sunītha, son of Suṣeṇa, 4.21.3

Sunīthā, wife of Aṅga, 1.13.7, 11

Sunīti, wife of Uttānapāda, 1.11.3–32

becomes star, 1.12.94, 99–100

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.15–23

phantom of, 1.12.14–31

Sūnṛtā, see Sunīti

Suns, deities, 5.1.58

as Viṣṇu, 6.7.56

Supāra, son of Samara, 4.19.10

Supāras, deities, 3.2.34

Suparṇas, Vedic text, 3.15.2

Supārśva, see Mount Supārśva

Supārśva, son of Dṛḍhanemi, 4.19.11

Supārśva, son of Śrutāyus, 4.5.12

Suprabha, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Supratīka, son of Pratītāśva, 4.22.3

Śūra, son of Devamīḍhuṣa, 4.14.7, 9

Śūra, son of Paraśurāma, 4.11.9

Śūra, son of Vidūratha, 4.14.5

Surabhi, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.24

Surabhi, sacred cow, 1.9.90

Sūraka, hell realm, 2.6.9

Śūras, people, 2.3.16

Surasā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.19

Surasā River, 2.3.11

Śūrasena, son of Paraśurāma, 4.11.9

Śūrasena, son of Śatrughna, 4.4.58

Suratha, son of Janhu Janamejaya, 4.20.2

Suratha, son of Kuṇḍaka, 4.22.3

Suruci, wife of Uttānapāda, 1.11.2–26

chides Dhruva, 1.11.6–10

rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

Surūpas, deities, 3.1.16

Sūrya, sanctuary of, 2.2.46

see also sun

Sūryavarcas, rides solar carriage, 2.10.18

Susaṃbhāvya, son of Raivata, 3.1.23

Susandhi, son of Prasuśruta, 4.4.60

Suśānti, king of gods, 3.1.13

Suśānti, son of Śānti, 4.19.13

Suśarman, son of Nārāyaṇa, 4.24.11

Suṣeṇa, rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

Suṣeṇa, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.1

Suṣeṇa, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Suṣeṇa, son of Vṛṣṇiman, 4.21.3

Suśīlā, wife of Kṛṣṇa, 5.28.4

Suṣinandi, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

Śuṣmins, community, 2.4.38

Suśrama, son of Dharma, 4.23.2

Suśruta, son of Subhāṣa, 4.5.12

Suṣumṇa, solar ray, 2.11.22

susvadhā, invocation, 3.15.44

sūta, bard, 1.13.51

Sutala, lower realm, 2.5.2

Sutanu, daughter of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Sutapas, deities, 3.2.15

Sutapas, sage, 3.2.35, 40

Sutapas, son of Hema, 4.18.1

Sutapas, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13

Sutārā, daughter of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Sutrāmans, deities, 3.2.38

Suvarcalā, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Suvarṇa, son of Antarikṣa, 4.22.3

Suvarṇaroman, son of Mahāroman, 4.5.11

Suvibhu, son of Vibhu, 4.8.9

Suvīra, son of Kṣemya, 4.19.13

Suvīra, son of Śibi, 4.18.1

Suvrata, son of Kṣemya, 4.23.2

Suyaśas, son of Aśokavardhana, 4.24.7

Śvabhojana, hell realm, 2.6.5, 29

svadhā, invocation, 1.8.23; 1.9.116, 5.2.19; 6.1.58; 6.8.58, 61

Svadhā, wife of the Vahnayas, 1.10.19

svāhā, invocation, 1.8.21; 1.9.116; 3.15.27; 5.2.19; 6.1.58; 6.8.58, 61

Svāhā, wife of Abhimānin, 1.10.14

Svāhā, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Svāhi, son of Vṛjinīvant, 4.12.1

Svāhinī, mountain range, 2.4.50

Svairatha, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Śvapacas, community, 3.11.105

Śvaphalka, son of Vṛṣṇi, 4.13.39–42, 44; 4.14.2

Svarbhānu, demon of eclipses, 2.12.21

Svarbhānu, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.5, 7, 12

Svarga, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Svarloka, realm, 2.7.18

Svārociṣa, Manu, son of Priyavrata, 3.1.6, 9–12, 24, 37

Svārociṣa, Manvantara, 1.21.27

Svasā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125

Svāti, lunar mansion, 3.14.7

Svayaṃbhoja, son of Pratikṣatra, 4.14.5

Svāyaṃbhuva, Manu, 1.7.14–17; 2.1.42; 2.6.38; 3.1.6, 8, 36

in form of calf, 1.13.87

svayaṃvara, marriage contest, 3.18.88; 5.28.6; 5.35.4

Śveta, mountain range, 2.2.11

Śveta, region, 2.1.20; 2.8.73

Śveta, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

swastika, symbol, 2.5.14

Śyāma, mountain range, 2.4.62

Śyāma, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Syamantaka, jewel, 4.13.6–57 passim

Śyenī, daughter of Kaśyapa and Tāmrā, 1.21.15–16

Taittirīyas, etymology of, 3.5.13

Takṣa, son of Bharata, 4.4.58

Takṣaka, serpent, son of Kaśyapa, 1.21.21

attacks Prahlāda, 1.17.38

rides solar carriage, 2.10.7

Tāla, hell realm, 2.6.2, 10

Tālajaṅgha, son of Jayadhvaja, 4.11.10

Tālajaṅghas, tribe, 4.3.18, 27

Tālavana, grove, 5.8.1–13

Tamas, hell realm, 2.6.4

Tamas, son of Pṛthuśravas, 4.12.3

Tāmasa, Manu, son of Priyavrata, 3.1.6, 16–19, 24, 39

Tāmistra, hell realm, 1.6.41; 3.11.103

Tāmrā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.15, 17

Tāmralipta, region, 4.24.15

Tāmraparṇa, region, 2.3.6

Tāmraparṇī River, 2.3.13

Tapasvin, son of Manu, 1.13.5; 3.2.35

Tapatī, son of Sun, 3.2.4

Tāpī River, 2.3.11

Tapodhana, sage, 3.2.35

Tapodhṛti, sage, 3.2.35

Tapoloka, realm, 2.7.14–15, 19

Tapomūrti, sage, 3.2.35

Taporati, sage, 3.2.35

Taptakumbha, hell realm, 2.6.2, 10

Taptaloha, hell realm, 2.6.11

Tārā, wife of Bṛhaspati, 4.6.8–21

Tāraka, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.5

Tārakā War, 4.6.13

Tārkṣya, rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

Tāṭakā, she-demon, 4.4.49

Tattvadarśin, sage, 3.2.40

teak, tree, 2.4.63

texts

as forms of Viṣṇu, 1.22.81

historical, 3.4.10; 5.1.38

thieves, 1.13.30–32

hell for, 2.6.9, 14

thread, sacred, see sacred thread

thunderbolts, 5.37.40

see also Vajra, 5.31.4

tidal range, 2.4.88–91

tigers, 4.4.29, 42; 6.6.13

Tigma, son of Mṛdu, 4.21.3

Tilottamā, apsaras, 5.38.73, 77

rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

time, 1.15.76; 1.22.77; 2.8.4; 5.9.29

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.3.6; 1.22.23, 24, 27; 3.17.25

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.29, 30, 31

cause of wickedness, 1.6.14, 29

creative energy of, 1.22.33

divisions of, 1.3.1–10; 2.8.59–71

overcomes kings, 4.24.61–65

qualities of, 3.17.25

units of, 1.8.28; 1.9.44; 3.5.18; 6.3.4–12

vagaries of, 5.38.54–57, 63–65

Viṣṇu as form of, 1.3.6; 1.8.28; 1.14.25; 1.22.77

see also kalā; kāṣṭhā; muhurta; nāḍikā; nimeṣa; para; parārdha

Tiryaksrotas, creation, 1.5.9–11

Tiṣya, constellation, 4.24.22

Tiṣyas, community, 2.4.53

Titikṣu, son of Mahāmanas, 4.18.1

tortoise, avatāra, 2.2.49; 5.17.11

Tośalaka, wrestler, 5.20.68

Toyā River, 2.4.28

trade, 5.10.28–29

Trairājya, settlement, 4.24.15

Traiśānu, son of Gobhānu, 4.16.1

Trasadasyu, son of Purukutsa, 4.3.13

Trayyāruṇa, son of Durukṣaya, 4.19.8

divides Vedas, 3.3.15

trees, 5.30.12; 6.1.52; 6.7.57

hell for felling, 2.6.26

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.57

Māriṣā born of, 1.15.46–51

sovereignty over, 1.22.7

see also individual tree names

trespassers, hell for, 2.6.25

Tretā age, 2.4.14; 3.2.57; 4.2.15; 4.24.39; 6.2.15, 17

tribes, 4.3.19, 27–32

wars against, 4.3.28

trident, Śiva’s, 3.2.11

Tridhāman, divides Vedas, 3.3.13

Tridhanvan, son of Vasumanas, 4.3.14

Tridivā River, 2.4.11

Trikūṭa, mountain range, 2.2.27

Trimūrti, 1.2.65–66; 1.4.15; 1.9.55; 1.19.66; 1.22.38; 5.18.51; 5.30.10; 6.8.18

Trisāmā River, 2.3.13

Triśaṅku, son of Trayyāruṇa, 4.3.14–17

Triśṛṅga, mountain range, 2.2.43

Triṣṭubh, metre, 1.5.54; 2.8.7

Triviṣṭapa, divine realm, 1.9.110

Trivṛṣan, divides Vedas, 3.3.14

Trivṛtsāma, hymns, 1.5.53

Tṛṇabindu, divides Vedas, 3.3.17

Tṛṇabindu, son of Budha, 4.1.31, 33, 40

Tryambaka, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Tryaṃśa, son of Vipracitti, 1.21.11

Tumburu, gandharva, 4.14.4

rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Tūṇi, son of Asaṅga, 4.14.1

Turvasu, son of Yayāti, 4.10.4, 8, 21

descendants of, 4.16.1

Tuṣāras, dynasty, 4.24.12

Tuṣita, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.38

Tuṣitas, deities, 1.15.126–129, 132; 3.1.37

Tuṣitā, mother of gods, 3.1.37

Tuṣṭimant, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Tvaṣṭṛ, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130

Tvaṣṭṛ, divine artisan, 3.2.11

rides solar carriage, 2.10.16

Tvaṣṭṛ, son of Manasyu, 2.1.39

Tvaṣṭṛ, son of Viśvakarman, 1.15.121

twilight, 2.8.48–49, 60; 5.30.9

see also sandhyā

Uccaiḥśravas, granted sovereignty, 1.22.6

Udaksena, son of Viṣvaksena, 4.19.11

Udāvasu, son of Janaka, 4.5.11

Udayagiri, mountain range, 2.4.62

Udayana, son of Darbhaka, 4.24.2

Udayana, son of Śatānīka, 4.21.3

Udāyin, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Udbhida, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Uddhava, friend of Kṛṣṇa, 5.37.30–35

udgātṛ, cantor, 3.4.12

Udgītha, son of Bhuva, 2.1.36

Ugra, name of Rudra, 1.8.6

Ugrasena, son of Āhuka, 4.13.11–44 passim; 5.15.18; 5.18.6; 5.24.7; 5.35.10–26 passim; 5.37.10–11, 52

enters flames, 5.38.4

reinstated, 5.21.9–14

rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

Ugrasena, son of Parīkṣit, 4.20.1; 4.21.1

Ugrāyudha, son of Kṛta, 4.19.12

Uktha, son of Chala, 4.4.58

Uktha, verses, 1.5.54–55

Ulmuka, son of Balarāma, 5.25.19

Ulūpī, daughter of nāga, 4.20.12

Umā

marries Śiva, 1.8.13

see also Satī

Umlocā, apsaras, 2.10.10

universal sovereign, 1.13.46–47; 4.1.19; 4.2.35; 4.3.22; 4.19.1

form of Viṣṇu, 3.2.57

universe, destruction of, 1.3.22–24

Unnata, mountain range, 2.4.26

Unseen property, avyakta, 1.2.14–19, 53, 59; 1.5.16; 2.7.34; 6.3.5; 6.4.35–46 passim

untouchables, community, 3.11.105; 3.16.12; 4.3.14

Upadānavī, daughter of Vṛṣaparvan, 1.21.7

Upadevā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Upadeva, son of Akrūra, 4.14.2

Upadeva, son of Devaka, 4.14.5

Upadeva, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.36

Upagu, son of Sātyarathi, 4.5.12

Upakṣatra, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Upamadgu, son of Śvaphalka, 4.14.2

Upananda, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Upanidhi, son of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Upaniṣads, as forms of Viṣṇu, 1.22.81

Uparicara, son of Kṛtaka, 4.19.14

Upendra, epithet of Kṛṣṇa, 5.12.12

upper realms, 2.5.1; 2.7.1–28

Maharloka, 1.3.23; 2.7.12, 20; 6.3.28

Maitreya asks about, 2.7.1–2

Ūrdhvabāhu, son of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.13; 3.1.22

Ūrdhvasrotas creation, 1.5.12–14

urination, 3.11.9–22; 3.12.27–28

Ūrja, sage, 3.1.11

Ūrjā, wife of Vasiṣṭha, 1.10.12

Ūrjavaha, son of Śuci, 4.5.11

Urṇāyu, rides solar carriage, 2.10.14

Ūru, son of Bhautya, 3.2.45

Ūru, son of Cākṣuṣa, 3.1.29

Urukṣaya, son of Bṛhatkṣaṇa, 4.22.2

Urvaśī, apsaras, 4.5.6; 4.19.14

affair with Purūravas, 4.6.24–50

rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

Uṣā, wife of Aniruddha, 5.32.7–24 passim; 5.33.6

Uṣā, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Uśanas, sage, 1.19.26–28; 4.6.10, 12; 4.10.3, 5

divides Vedas, 3.3.12

praises Dhruva, 1.12.97–100

Uśanas, son of Tamas, 4.12.3

Uśīnara, son of Mahāmanas, 4.18.1

uśīra-grass, 6.1.53

Uṣṇa, son of Dyutimant/region, 2.4.48

Uṣṇa, son of Niścaknu, 4.21.3

Uṣṇih, metre, 2.8.7

Utkala, son of Sudyumna, 4.1.15

Uttama, Manu, son of Priyavrata, 3.1.6–38 passim

divides Vedas, 3.3.16

Uttama, son of Uttānapāda, 1.11.2–27

Uttamaujas, son of Brahmasāvarṇi, 3.2.28

Uttānapāda, son of Svāyaṃbhuva, 1.7.16; 1.11.1–11

Uttānapāda, star, 2.12.31

Uttaṅka, sage, 4.2.21

Uttarā, consort of Abhimanyu, 4.20.13

Vācāvṛddhas, deities, 3.2.43

Vaḍavā, digestive fire, 3.11.94

vādhrīṇasa, bird, 3.16.2

Vadhyaśva, son of Mudgala, 4.19.14

Vādin, son of Pṛthu, 1.14.1

Vahnaya, fire gods, 1.10.14–17

Vahni, marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.24

Vahni, son of Turvasu, 4.16.1

Vahnijvāla, hell realm, 2.6.4, 26

Vahnis, as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18

Vaibhāja, see Mount Vaibhāja

Vaibhrāja, forest, 2.2.24

Vaideha, etymology, 4.5.11

Vaidiśa, city, 3.18.65

Vaidyuta, son of Vapuṣmant/region, 2.4.23, 29

Vaijayantī, garland, 1.22.70

Vaikaṅka, mountain range, 2.2.26

Vaikuṇṭha, form of Viṣṇu, 3.1.41

Vaikuṇṭhas, deities, 3.1.21, 41

Vainahotra, son of Dhṛṣṭaketu, 4.8.9

Vainya, see Pṛthu

Vairāja, patriarch, 1.13.4; 1.22.9

Vairāja, verses, 1.5.56

Vairāja gods, 2.7.14

Vairūpa, verses, 1.5.55

Vaiśākha, month, 3.14.12; 5.32.14

Vaiśālī, city, 4.1.34, 39–40

Vaiśālī, wife of Vasudeva, 4.15.13

Vaiśampāyana, disciple of Vyāsa, 3.4.8; 3.5.1–2, 5

trips over nephew, 3.5.6

Vaiṣṇava, see fevers—Śaiva and Vaiṣṇava; insignia—Vaiṣṇava

Vaiṣṇavas, 3.7.14–38

Vaiśravaṇa, granted sovereignty, 1.22.3

Vaiśvānara, path of, 2.8.85

Vaiśvānara, son of Danu, 1.21.8

Vaiśya

hell for killing, 2.6.10

killing of, 4.13.36

Vaiśyas, community, 3.8.12; 4.1.20; 4.24.35

creation of, 1.6.4, 6

duties of, 3.8.30–31, 38

heaven for, 1.6.35

unvirtuous conduct of, 6.1.36

see also communities

Vaitālaki, sage, 3.4.24

Vaitaṇḍa, son of Āpa, 1.15.111

Vaitaraṇī, hell realm, 2.6.3, 24

Vaivasvata, Manu, son of Sun, 3.1.7, 30–34, 42; 3.2.2

offering to, 3.15.28

Vaivasvata, Manvantara, 1.15.126, 129, 132; 1.21.27; 3.3.9

Vājaśravas, divides Vedas, 3.3.17

Vājins, brahmins, 3.5.29–30

Vajra, Indra’s weapon, 1.21.38–41; 5.31.4

Vajra, son of Aniruddha, 4.15.20; 5.32.6–7; 5.37.58, 60; 5.38.5–6, 34

Vajramitra, son of Ghoṣavasu, 4.24.9

Vajranābha, son of Uktha, 4.4.58

Vaktrayodhin, son of Vipracitti,1.21.12

Vālakhilyas, sages, sons of Kratu, 1.10.11; 2.8.58

surround solar carriage, 2.10.22; 2.11.17

Vālin, king of monkeys, 4.4.53

Vālmīki, divides Vedas, 3.3.18

Vāmana, form of Viṣṇu, 1.9.140; 3.1.42; 5.5.17

Vāmana, mountain range, 2.4.50

Vāmana Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Vanaka, sage, 3.1.18

Vanaprastha, stage of life, 3.9.18–23

Vaneyu, son of Raudrāśva, 4.19.1

Vaṅga, son of Dīrghatamas, 4.18.1

Vaṅgara, son of Dharma, 4.24.14

vanity, hell for, 2.6.25

Vapuṣmant, lord of Śālmala, 2.4.22, 29

Vapuṣmant, sage, 3.2.31

Vapuṣmant, son of Priyavrata, 2.1.7, 13

Vārāha, aeon, 1.3.18

Vārāha, Manvantara, 2.1.42

Varāha Purāṇa, 3.6.23

Vārāṇasī, city

burnt by Kṛṣṇa, 5.34.3–44

see also Kāśī

Varcas, son of Soma, 1.15.112

Varcasvin, son of Varcas, 1.15.112

varṇa, see communities

Varṇin, divides Vedas, 3.3.14

Varuṇa, god of waters, 1.13.3; 1.17.3, 87; 1.9.68; 3.14.15; 4.1.9–11; 4.5.6; 4.7.9; 5.1.58; 5.25.2, 16; 5.30.57

born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.131

city of, 2.8.8–9

curses Urvaśī, 4.6.24

food offering for, 3.11.46

granted sovereignty, 1.22.3

initiates sacrifice, 1.21.27

rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

umbrella of, 5.29.10, 34; 5.30.1

Vāruṇa, region, 2.3.7

Varuṇa, star, 2.12.32

Vāruṇī, goddess of wine, 1.9.92

attends Śeṣa, 2.5.18

vaṣaṭ, ritual cry, 1.4.22; 1.9.70; 4.3.31; 5.36.10; 6.1.58

Vaśavartins, deities, 3.1.14

Vasiṣṭha, sage, mind-born son of Brahmā, 1.1.12–29; 1.7.5; 1.9.22; 1.10.12; 1.22.65; 3.1.2,15; 3.17.7; 4.1.7; 4.2.11; 4.3.28; 4.4.32–35, 45; 4.5.1–4

counsels Dhruva, 1.11.48

divides Vedas, 3.3.13

marries Dakṣa’s daughter, 1.7.24

rides solar carriage, 2.10.8

Vasu, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Vasu, sage, 3.2.23

Vasu, son of Kṛtaka, 4.19.14

Vasudāna, son of Bṛhadratha, 4.21.3

Vasudeva (Vāsudeva), father of Kṛṣṇa, 4.13.23; 4.15.11; 5.1.5–11, 68, 79; 5.6.8; 5.15.4, 18; 5.18.5; 5.19.11; 5.20.27, 40, 71, 80; 5.21.1; 5.23.23; 5.37.52

conveys Kṛṣṇa from Mathurā, 5.3.15

enters flames, 5.38.4

freed by Kaṃsa, 5.4.14–17

greets Nanda, 5.5.1–5

imposter, 5.34.4–27

nature of, 6.5.82–87

praises Kṛṣṇa, 5.20.82–92

recognises Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.8–11

regicide, 4.24.11

son of Śūra, 4.14.8

takes Yoganidrā to Mathurā, 5.3.21

wives of, 4.14.5

Vāsuki, serpent, son of Kaśyapa and Kadru, 1.9.76, 82–85; 1.21.21; 5.18.37

recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.45

rides solar carriage, 2.10.3

Vasumanas, son of Haryaśva, 4.3.14

Vasumitra, son of Sujyeṣṭha, 4.24.9

Vasus, deities, 1.9.68; 1.15.109–110; 3.1.31; 4.11.1; 5.1.58; 5.17.8; 5.4.5; 5.30.60; 5.37.16

arise from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

as Viṣṇu, 5.1.18; 6.7.56; 6.8.22

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

present in guest, 3.11.69

sons of Dharma and Vasu, 1.15.106

sovereignty over, 1.22.3

supplicate Viṣṇu, 1.9.63

Vasvokasārā, Indra’s city, 2.8.9

Vāta, rides solar carriage, 2.10.11

vaṭa, tree, 2.2.18

Vātāpi, son of Vipracitti,1.21.11

Vatsa, recites Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.45

Vatsa, son of Divodāsa, 4.8.7–8

Vatsa, son of Urukṣaya, 4.22.2

Vatsabālaka, son of Śūra, 4.14.8

Vatsahanu, son of Senajit, 4.19.9

Vatsapri, son of Bhalandana, 4.1.21

Vatsavyūha, son of Vatsa, 4.22.2

Vātsya, sage, 3.4.22

Vāyu, god of winds, 1.17.45, 87; 4.14.9; 4.20.11; 5.21.13–17

as Visṇu, 6.8.22

food offering for, 3.11.48

Vedabāhu, sage, 3.1.22

Vedagarbhā, goddess, 5.1.84

Vedamitra, sage, 3.4.21

Vedāṅgas, texts, 3.6.27; 3.15.2; 5.17.5

as forms of Viṣṇu, 1.22.81

Vedāntas, texts, 5.17.15

Vedas, 3.3.23; 3.6.27; 3.11.63; 3.15.2; 4.1.6; 5.2.7; 5.17.5; 6.2.18; 6.4.40

a form of Viṣṇu, 1.22.81; 3.3.30–31

abandoned, 3.18.20–35; 4.9.12; 4.20.8–9; 6.1.39, 45

advent of, 1.4.29, 33

arrangement of, 3.3.4–21

as abodes of sun, 3.5.16

as protection, 3.17.5–6, 42–43, 3.18.36, 51

branches of, 3.4.1–26

creation of, 1.5.53–56

disappear, 3.2.46

division of, 3.6.30–32

hell for dishonouring or selling, 2.6.13

in decline, 4.24.20

instruction in, 6.1.32

no need for, 2.4.83

study of, 3.12.36

see also Atharva Veda; Ṛg Veda; Sāma Veda; Vedic; Yajur Veda

Vedaśiras, sage, 6.8.47

Vedaśiras, son of Mṛkaṇḍu, 1.10.4

Vedasmṛti River, 2.3.10

Vedaśrī, sage, 3.1.22

Veda-vyāsa, form of Viṣṇu, 3.2.58

Veda-vyāsas, twenty-eight, 3.3.1–21; 3.5.10

Vedhaka, hell realm, 2.6.16

Vedic

female experts, 1.10.19–20

recitation, 6.6.1–3

recitation abandoned, 6.1.48

Vedic verses, see Ṛces

Vegavant, son of Bandhumant, 4.1.31

Vena

birth of, 1.13.11

divides Vedas, 3.3.17

forbids sacrifice, 1.13.14–25

hand massaged, 1.13.7–8, 38

killed by sages, 1.13.27–29

petitioned by sages, 1.13.16–19, 25

thigh massaged, 1.3.33

Vena, son of Aṅga, 1.13.7

Veṇuhaya, son of Śatajit, 4.11.4

Veṇukā River, 2.4.65

Veṇumant, son of Jyotiṣmant/region, 2.4.36

Venus, 2.12.17

height of, 2.7.7–8

Venus, son of Rudra, 1.8.11

Vibhāvarī, Soma’s city, 2.8.9

Vibhrāja, son of Sukṛti, 4.19.10

Vibhu, king of gods, 3.1.20

Vibhu, son of Satyaketu, 4.8.9

Vibudha, son of Kṛti, 4.5.11

Vice, descendants of, 1.7.28–30

Vicitra, king, 3.2.41

Vicitravīrya, son of Śāṃtanu, 4.20.10

Vidarbha, kingdom, 4.4.1

Vidarbha, son of Jyāmagha, 4.12.15

Videha, city, 4.13.34–35

Vidhātṛ, libation for, 3.11.44

Vidhātṛ, son of Bhṛgu, 1.8.14; 1.10.2

Vidhisāra, son of Kṣatrojas, 4.24.2

Vidruma, mountain range, 2.4.41

Vidura, son of Vyāsa, 4.20.10

Vidūratha, king, 5.26.7

Vidūratha, son of Bhajamāna, 4.14.5

Vidūratha, son of Suratha, 4.20.3

Vidyādharas, supernatural beings, 1.9.2–5; 6.8.14

Vidyudambhā River, 2.4.43

Vidyut, rides solar carriage, 2.10.13

Vidyuts, lightning gods, 1.15.135

Vihaṃgamas, deities, 3.2.30

Vijayā, consort of Sahadeva, 4.20.11

Vijaya, son of Cañcu, 4.3.17

Vijaya, son of Jaya, 4.5.12; 4.9.14

Vijaya, son of Jayadratha, 4.18.4

Vijaya, son of Yajñaśrī, 4.24.11

Vikeśī, wife of Rudra, 1.8.8

Vikṛti, son of Jīmūta, 4.12.17

Vikukṣi, son of Ikṣvaku, 4.2.9, 10–12

Vikuṇṭhā, mother of gods, 3.1.41

villages, hell for destroying, 2.6.24

Vilohita, hell realm, 2.6.2

Viloman, son of Kapotaroman, 4.14.4

vimāna, see carriages—sky-going

Vimocanī River, 2.4.28

Vimoha, hell realm, 2.6.14

Viṃśa, son of Cakṣupa, 4.1.24

Vinatā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Kaśyapa, 1.15.125; 1.21.18

Vinata, son of Sudyumna, 4.1.15

Vinda, son of Rājādhidevī, 4.14.10

Vindhya, mountain range, 1.13.36; 2.3.3, 11

Vindhyaśakti, dynasty, 4.24.13

vines, 5.30.12

violence, gendered, 5.25.8–14

Vipāśā River, 2.4.11; 3.14.18

Vipaścit, king of gods, 3.1.10

Vipra, son of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.2

Vipra, son of Śrutaṃjaya, 4.23.2

Vipracitti, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.9.105; 1.15.141; 1.21.6

assists Hiraṇyakaśipu, 1.19.52

sons of, 1.21.10

Vipṛthu, son of Citraka, 4.14.2; 5.37.41

Vipula, see Mount Vipula

Virādha, rākṣasa, 4.4.53

Virāj, son of Nara, 2.1.37

Viraja, son of Tvaṣṭṛ, 2.1.39

Virajas, sage, 3.1.28

Virajas, son of Paurṇamāsa, 1.10.6

Virajas, son of Sāvarṇi, 3.2.19

Vīraṇa, patriarch, 1.13.3

Vīranagara, city, 2.15.6

Virocana, son of Prahlāda, 1.21.1

virtue

debased, 6.1.15

descendants of, 1.7.25–27

in Kali age, 6.2.34

marries Dakṣa’s daughters, 1.7.21

no need for, 2.4.83

Viruddhas, deities, 3.2.25

Virūpa, son of Ambarīṣa, 4.2.5

Viśākhā, lunar mansion, 2.8.76–78; 3.14.7

Viśākha, son of Agni, 1.15.115

Viśākhayūpa, son of Pālaka, 4.24.1

Viśāla, son of Tṛṇabindu, 4.1.34

Viśāri, son of Upamadgu, 4.14.2

Viśasana, hell realm, 2.6.2, 17

Visiṣṭha, curses Nimi, 4.5.4

Viṣṇu, deity, 3.11.95; 4.1.6; 4.11.1; 5.17.15; 5.30.10

accoutrements of, 1.22.66–72

addresses Brahmā, 5.1.53

advises gods, 4.2.15–16

and Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 6.8.55

appears to Akrūra, 5.18.39–47

appears to Dhruva, 1.12.41–43

appears to gods, 1.9.65–67

appears to Pracetases, 1.14.45–49

appears to Prahlāda, 1.20.14

as Absolute, 1.22.41–63; 3.3.28–29; 5.23.33; 6.5.68; 6.7.69; 6.8.58

as Āditya, 6.8.22

as Agni, 1.9.68

as air, 1.14.32

as all beings, 3.2.54; 6.7.68

as ancestral spirits, 1.8.23; 5.1.18; 6.8.58

as animals, 6.7.57; 6.8.24

as Aniruddha, 5.18.58

as antidote to suffering, 6.5.57–87

as apsarases, 6.8.23

as Aryaman, 5.18.56

as Aśvins, 6.8.22

as Atharva Veda, 5.1.37

as atonement, 2.6.39–42

as Balarāma, 5.18.58

as birds, 6.8.25

as Brahmā, 1.2.54; 1.2.60; 1.2.64; 1.3.3; 1.9.68; 2.4.40; 5.5.14; 5.18.56; 6.4.4, 7, 10; 6.7.56; 6.8.22

as brahmins, 6.8.24

as breath, 5.23.32

as calendrical science. 5.1.37

as constellations, 6.8.23

as cosmic egg, 6.8.28

as creator, 1.8.18; 6.8.61

as Daityas, 6.7.57; 6.8.23

as Dānavas, 6.8.23

as day, 1.8.30

as Death, 5.18.56

as deities, 5.1.16–18; 6.7.57; 6.8.22, 58

as dolphin, 2.9.1–6

as earth, 1.14.28; 5.23.31

as energy of sun, 2.11.8–26

as father of world, 1.9.123

as female apparition, 1.9.107

as fire, 1.14.30; 5.1.44; 5.18.56; 5.23.31

as Fires, 6.8.22

as food, 3.11.96

as forests, 5.23.31; 6.8.25

as form of Time, 1.3.6

as gandharvas, 6.7.57; 6.8.23

as grammar, 5.1.38

as groom, 1.8.30

as guardian of directions, 6.8.24

as guṇas, 6.8.61

as Hayaśiras, 2.2.49

as highest state, 6.4.40

as histories, 5.1.38

as humankind, 6.7.57; 6.8.24

as Indra, 1.8.25; 1.9.68; 5.18.56; 6.7.56; 6.8.22

as insects, 6.8.25

as intellect, 1.14.35; 5.23.32

as Kalki, 3.2.59; 4.24.20

as knowledge, 2.12.37–47; 6.8.61

as Kṛṣṇa, 5.1.4

as Kubera, 1.8.26; 5.18.56

as Lakṣmī’s complement, 1.8.16–34

as learning, 5.1.38

as light, 1.14.24

as living things, 1.22.36–37

as lower realms, 6.8.25

as Maruts, 1.9.68; 6.7.56

as masculine entities, 1.8.34

as metres, 5.1.37

as mind, 5.23.31

as moon, 1.8.24; 1.14.26

as mountains 5.23.31; 6.7.57; 6.8.25

as myths, 5.1.38

as nāgas, 6.8.23

as Narasiṃha, 1.20.32

as Nārāyaṇa, 2.9.23–24

as ocean, 1.8.25; 5.23.31; 6.7.57; 6.8.25

as Oṃ, 1.9.70; 2.8.54

as origin of beings, 5.23.34–35

as palāśa trees, 6.8.25

as patron of cattle and brahmins, 1.19.65

as philosophy, 5.1.39

as planets, 6.7.56; 6.8.23

as plants, 6.8.25

as Pradyumna, 5.18.58

as primal substance, 5.23.32

as Pṛthu, 1.13.45

as rākṣasas, 6.8.23

as refuge of gods, 1.9.34–36

as Ṛg Veda, 5.1.37

as ritual practice, 5.1.37

as rivers, 1.8.31; 5.23.31; 6.7.57; 6.8.25

as Rudra, 1.2.62; 2.4.56; 6.8.22

as Rudras, 6.7.56

as sacrifice, 1.4.32, 34; 1.8.19–21; 1.9.70; 2.7.43

as Sādhyas, 1.9.68; 6.8.22

as sages, 3.2.56

as Sāma, 5.1.37

as Savitṛ, 1.9.68

as sensations, 1.14.33; 6.8.28

as senses, 1.14.34

as Śeṣa, 2.5.13

as Seven Sages, 6.8.24

as sex, 1.8.32

as siddhas, 6.8.23

as Śiva, 1.8.22; 1.9.68; 5.1.30; 5.18.56

as sky, 5.23.31

as snakes, 6.8.25

as sons of Daśaratha, 4.4.49, 57

as sound, 1.22.81–83

as sovereigns, 1.22.14–20

as spirit, 5.1.43, 46; 5.23.32

as stars, 6.7.56; 6.8.23

as sun, 1.8.22, 29; 1.14.27; 2.4.70; 2.8.55; 6.7.56

as supreme being, 5.1.42

as supreme state, 5.1.40, 46

as Time, 1.14.25; 1.22.77

as tortoise, 1.9.86

as trees, 1.8.29; 6.7.57

as trimūrti, 1.4.15; 1.9.55; 1.19.66; 1.22.38; 5.18.51; 6.8.18

as units of Time, 1.8.28

as universal monarch, 3.2.57

as Varuṇa, 1.8.27; 1.9.68; 5.18.56

as vaṣaṭ, 1.9.70

as Vasus, 1.9.68; 6.7.56; 6.8.22

as Vāsudeva, 6.4.6

as Vāyu, 2.4.31; 6.8.22

as Vedas, 2.11.7, 11, 13; 3.3.30–31

as Veda-vyāsa, 3.2.58; 3.3.7; 3.4.5

as Vedic pronunciation, 5.1.37

as Viśvedevas, 1.9.68; 6.8.22

as water, 1.14.29; 5.23.31

as wind, 1.8.24; 1.14.31; 5.18.56; 5.23.31

as Yajur Veda, 2.11.13; 5.1.37

as yakṣas, 6.7.57; 6.8.23

as Yama, 1.8.26; 1.9.68

at churning of ocean, 1.9.75–79, 86–89

avatāras of, 2.2.49–50

benefits of recalling, 2.6.43–53

benefits of worshipping, 3.8.6–7; 6.8.56

blesses Dhruva, 1.12.51–52

born as deity in each Manvantara, 3.1.35–44

born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.130

contemplated by Pracetases, 1.14.19–20

counsels nāgas, 4.3.5

creates world, 6.4.10

creative power of, 2.7.29–43

day and night for, 6.4.47–49

destroys sins, 3.7.27

energy of, 6.7.60–75 passim

enters Devakī’s womb, 5.2.2

etymology of, 3.1.45

foretells advent of Kṛṣṇa, 5.1.60–65

forms for meditation, 6.7.79–89

forms of, 5.1.55; 5.5.14–21; 6.7.54–55

four aspects of, 1.22.21–40

Gaṅgā flows from, 2.2.32; 2.8.109

granted sovereignty by Brahmā, 1.22.3

grants all wishes, 1.14.14

grants boon to Arjuna Kārtavīrya, 4.11.4

grants boon to Dhruva, 1.12.42–43, 76–77

grants boon to Pracetases, 1.14.47–49

grants boon to Prahlāda, 1.20.17–28

grants boon to widow, 1.15.60–71

grants Dhruva liberation, 1.12.89

highest state of, 1.11.42–56; 2.8.99–103

how to worship, 1.11.51–56

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.56

maintains universe, 3.2.55–59

makes Dhruva, the Pole Star, 1.12.90–95

manifestations of power, 1.22.29–31

manifold forms of, 1.22.80

mantra for, 1.11.54–56

nature of, 1.19.69; 6.8.27; 6.8.59–63

not honoured, 6.1.47, 49

pervades Dhruva, 1.12.7

plucks out two hairs, 5.1.60–61

power of, 2.10.19; 2.11.7; 3.1.46

praised by Akrūra, 5.17.1–17; 5.18.48–58

praised by Brahmā, 1.14.17; 1.9.38–56; 5.1.34–51

praised by deities, 1.9.57–64; 3.17.11–34

praised by Dhruva, 1.12.44–82

praised by Earth, 5.1.12–20

praised by Kaṇḍu, 1.15.55–58

praised by Pracetases, 1.14.22–43

praised by Prahlāda, 1.17.14–30, 54–92 passim; 1.18.14–40; 1.19.34–49, 63–86; 1.20.9–13, 15–17

praised by sages, 1.4.31–44

produces phantom, 3.17.41–3.18.32

qualities of, 2.2.50–51; 3.17.31–34; 4.1.60–67; 4.14.14; 5.1.35–51, 55–56

realm of, 1.6.38–40; 2.8.98–107

reassures gods about Dhruva, 1.12.38–39

reclines on Śeṣa, 1.2.63; 1.7.38; 3.2.51; 6.4.4

rescues from Saṃsāra, 3.7.37

retrieves nectar, 1.9.107

rewards of calling on, 4.15.11; 6.8.19–21

rides solar carriage, 2.10.18

role in Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 3.6.26

sanctuary of, 2.2.46

slays adversaries, 4.14.10–13; 4.15.1–11

superior to Yama, 3.7.15

takes over a body, 4.3.5

terrible forms of, 1.7.28–32

three functions of, 1.7.36, 1.7.42–43; 3.2.53–60

three strides of, 1.4.35; 5.1.44

universal nature of, 2.12.37–47; 6.4.44–46

upholds world, 1.22.64–88

weapons of, 1.22.66–69

worship of, 2.4.40; 3.8.1–19

worshipped in Bhārata, 2.3.21, 25

worshipped on Plakṣadvīpa, 2.4.19

see also Kṛṣṇa

Viṣṇu, sage, 3.2.31

Viṣṇu Purāṇa, 3.6.19, 21, 25–26

equal of Vedas, 6.8.12

lineage of orators, 6.8.42

origin of, 1.1.12–31

phalaśruti of, 1.22.86–88; 6.8.1–41

Viṣṇuyaśas, brahmin, 4.24.20

Viśrutavant, son of Mahasvant, 4.4.60

Viśvā, daughter of Dakṣa, wife of Dharma, 1.15.105

Viśvācī, apsaras, 4.10.6

rides solar carriage, 2.10.12

Viśvadeva, food offering for, 3.11.47

Viśvadevas, 3.15.16, 45, 50, 54

as Visṇu, 6.8.22

food offering for, 3.11.104

Viśvagaśva, son of Pṛthu, 4.2.20

Viśvagjyoti, son of Śatajit, 2.1.40

Viśvajit, son of Jayadratha, 4.19.9

Viśvajit, son of Satyajit, 4.23.2

Viśvakarman, son of Prabhāsa, 1.15.119–120; 3.2.2; 4.2.61–62

honours Śrī, 1.9.102

makes weapons, 3.2.8–12

Viṣvaksena, son of Brahmadatta, 4.19.11

Viśvarūpa, son of Tvaṣṭṛ, 1.15.121

Viśvas, deities, 5.30.61

Viśvasaha, son of Ilivila, 4.4.47

Viśvasaha, son of Vyutthitāśva, 4.4.58

Viśvasphaṭika, Magadha king, 4.24.15

Viśvāmitra, sage, 1.1.13; 3.1.32; 4.4.49; 5.37.6

accepts food from outcaste, 4.3.15

rides solar carriage, 2.10.18

Viśvāmitra, son of Ṛcīka, 4.7.18

Viśvāvasu, gandharva, 1.9.100; 4.6.33–37

rides solar carriage, 2.10.9, 12

Viśvāvasu, son of Purūravas, 4.7.1

Viśvedevas, deities, 1.9.68; 1.15.106

Vītahavya, son of Sunaya, 4.5.12

Vītahotra, son of Tālajaṅgha, 4.11.10

Vitala, lower realm, 2.5.2

Vitatha, son of Bharata, 4.19.6

Vitṛṣṇā River, 2.4.28

Vivasvat, born to Kaśyapa and Aditi, 1.15.131

rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

Vivasvat, the sun, 3.1.30

Viviṃśa, son of Viṃśa, 4.1.24

Viviṃśas, community, 2.4.17

Viyāti, son of Nahuṣa, 4.10.1

vows, hell for breaking, 2.6.28

Vrātyas, community, 4.24.15

Vṛddhaśarman, prince of Kārūṣas, 4.14.10

Vṛja, son of Havirdhāna, 1.14.2

Vṛjinīvant, son of Kroṣṭu, 4.12.1

Vṛka, son of Kṛṣṇa, 5.32.4

Vṛka, son of Ruruka, 4.3.17

Vṛkadevā, daughter of Devaka, 4.14.5

Vṛkala, son of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.2

Vṛkatejas, son of Śiṣṭi, 1.13.2

Vṛndāvana, 5.6.24–51; 5.7.1–5.18.31 passim; 5.25.4

Vṛṣa, king of gods, 3.2.30

Vṛṣa, son of Bharata, 4.11.10

Vṛṣabha, granted sovereignty, 1.22.6

Vṛṣadarbha, son of Śibi, 4.18.1

Vṛṣākapi, a Rudra, 1.15.122

Vṛṣaṇa, son of Paraśurāma, 4.11.9

Vṛṣaparvan, son of Kaśyapa and Danu, 1.21.5, 7; 4.10.3–4

Vṛṣasena, son of Karṇa, 4.18.5

Vṛṣṇi, clan, 4.11.10; 4.14.2; 5.23.11; 5.32.21

see also Yādavas

Vṛṣṇi, son of Bhajamāna, 4.13.2

Vṛṣṇi, son of Kunti, 4.12.17

Vṛṣṇi, son of Madhu, 4.11.10

Vṛṣṇi, son of Satvata, 4.13.1

Vṛṣṇiman, son of Śuciratha, 4.21.3

Vṛṣṇis, extinguished, 5.38.60

Vṛtra, demon, 5.1.58

vultures, 5.6.27

king reborn as, 3.18.79

origin of, 1.21.16

Vyāghra, rides solar carriage, 2.10.10

vyakta, manifest principle, 1.4.14–18, 25; 6.4.35

Vyāsa, sage, son of Parāśara, 1.1.9; 3.2.17; 4.20.10; 6.2.3–39

arranges Vedas, 3.4.2–15

compiles purāṇas, 3.6.15

disciples of, 3.4.7–10

form of Viṣṇu, 3.4.5

instructs Arjuna, 5.38.35–92

see also Veda-vyāsa

Vyoma, son of Daśārha, 4.12.17

Vyutthitāśva, son of Śaṅkhanābha, 4.4.58

wagon, overturned by Kṛṣṇa, 5.15.2; 5.20.33

washerman, slain by Kṛṣṇa, 5.19.1–17

water, 2.2.54; 2.12.3; 5.30.9; 6.4.14–18

clock, 6.3.8

consecrated with mantras, 4.2.25–30

cycle, 5.9.30; 5.10.23

ocean of freshwater, 2.4.86, 93

sprinkled, 2.8.52

waterbirds, origin of, 1.21.17

wealth, 6.2.25–26; 6.5.54

squandered, 6.1.20

weapons

heavenly, 1.13.40; 3.2.11–12

hell for makers of, 2.6.17

training in, 5.21.21

see also Devapraharaṇas

whey, ocean of, 2.4.57–58

wind, 1.17.3; 1.9.68; 5.30.9; 6.4.2–3

attacks Prahlāda, 1.19.21–25

Winds, deities, 5.1.58

arising from Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

contemplate Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.37

see also Anila; Maruts; Vāyu

wolf, king reborn as, 3.18.77

womb, 5.2.8; 6.5.10–15

women

attitude towards, 3.12.30

excellence of in Kali age, 6.2.8, 12, 28–29, 35

merciful treatment of, 5.7.54

speech of, 4.6.20

unvirtuous, 6.1.28–31

vanity of, 6.1.16–17

vulnerable, 6.1.12

world

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.25

as part of Kṛṣṇa, 5.7.61

creation of, 1.4.45–52

destruction of, 2.5.19; 2.8.97; 6.3.25–27

flooding of, 1.19.56

furthest limit of, 2.4.93–95

imbued with Absolute, 1.22.62

loses splendour, 1.9.26–31

made flat, 1.13.82–85

overgrown, 1.15.1

populated, 2.1.42

restored with milk, 1.13.79–91

splendour restored, 1.9.111–114

wrestlers, defeated by Kṛṣṇa, 5.20.23–69

Yādava boys, cursed by sages, 5.37.9

Yādava, clan, 4.11.11; 4.13.13–53 passim; 5.15.5, 20–21; 5.20.37; 5.26.5; 5.35.6

see also Yadu clan

Yādavas

destruction of, 5.37.1–70

observe their heavenly forms, 5.31.12

Yadu, clan, 4.12.21–26; 4.15.20–22; 5.1.2; 5.21.1, 6; 5.24.7

lineage of, 5.23.23

Yadu, son of Yayāti, 4.10.4, 6–7, 21; 4.11.1–3, 11

Yajña, star, 2.12.31; 3.1.36

Yajñaśrī, son of Śivaskandha, 4.24.11

Yājñavalkya, son of Brahmarāta, sage, 3.4.18; 3.5.3–15; 4.4.59; 4.21.2

and sun, 3.5.16–27

vomits yajus prayers, 3.5.12–13

Yajur Veda, 3.4.8, 11, 13; 6.1.10

branches of, 3.5.1–30

creation of, 1.5.54

lights world, 2.11.10

yajus prayers, 3.4.12–13; 3.5.12–13, 15, 27–30

Yakṣas, supernatural beings, 1.17.87; 1.19.67; 2.2.47; 2.4.37; 4.11.1; 5.2.16; 5.13.8, 12; 5.23.34; 6.7.57, 66; 6.8.14, 52

as forms of Viṣṇu, 3.17.19; 5.1.19; 6.8.23

creation of, 1.5.41–43, 58

origin of, 1.21.25

qualities of, 3.17.19

ride solar carriage, 2.10.2, 21; 2.11.17

Yakṣman, god of tuberculosis, 3.11.49

Yama, lord of death, 1.17.4; 1.9.68; 3.2.2; 3.7.5–7, 13–39; 4.19.2; 4.24.66; 5.30.58; 6.5.44

as aspect of Viṣṇu, 1.22.27

as manifestation of Viṣṇu’s power, 1.22.31

city of, 2.8.8–9

cursed by Chāyā, 3.2.5

etymology, 3.7.15

food offering for, 3.11.46

granted sovereignty, 1.22.5

realm of, 2.6.6

servants of, 3.7.19, 38

Yāmas, sons of Sacrifice and Recompense, 1.7.18

assail Dhruva, 1.12.12–31

Yamī, daughter of Sun, 3.2.2

Yamunā, dragged by Balarāma, 5.25.8–14

Yamunā River, 1.12.2; 5.18.33–36; 5.3.18; 5.7.2–81 passim; 6.8.3–39

Yañjopeta, rākṣasa, 2.10.18

Yaśodā, wife of Nanda, 4.15.17; 5.1.77, 79; 5.2.3; 5.5.12; 5.6.7, 11, 13; 5.7.21–34; 5.15.3

discovers Kṛṣṇa, 5.3.22

gives birth to Yoganidrā, 5.3.20

Yati, son of Nahuṣa, 4.10.1, 2

Yaudheyī, consort of Yudhiṣṭhira, 4.20.11

Yavanas, people, 2.3.8; 4.3.28, 31; 4.24.12; 5.23.4, 9, 16

Yavīnara, son of Dvimīḍha, 4.19.11

Yayāti, son of Nahuṣa, 4.6.4; 4.24.50

cursed by Uśanas, 4.10.5; 4.16.1; 5.21.12

swaps old age, 4.10.1–22

years, 6.3.10

classification of, 2.8.72

division of, 2.8.69–71

elements of, 2.8.4

yoga, 2.1.9, 33; 2.13.4, 11; 4.4.59; 4.19.11; 5.18.42; 5.37.53, 62; 6.6.1–6, 13; 6.7.69, 73, 100, 102

practice of, 6.7.25–96

Yoganidrā, deity, 4.15.14, 17; 5.1.70–87; 5.2.1–3; 5.3.16, 20; 5.4.12; 6.4.6

qualities of, 5.1.83–87

Yogasiddhā, wife of Prabhāsa, 1.15.118

yoghurt, 2.15.30; 3.10.6; 3.11.85; 3.13.3; 5.6.7; 5.10.44; 5.15.22

Yonī River, 2.4.28

Yuddhamuṣṭi, son of Ugrasena, 4.14.5

Yudhajit, son of Vṛṣṇi, 4.13.6

Yudhiṣṭhira, son of Pāṇḍu, 4.14.9; 4.20.11; 4.24.29–30, 68; 4.24.68; 5.12.24; 5.35.28; 5.38.90, 91

Yugādya, auspicious days, 3.14.13

Yugaṃdhara, son of Tūṇi, 4.14.1

Yukta, sage, 3.2.44

Yuvanāśva, son of Ambarīṣa, 4.3.2

Yuvanāśva, son of Cāndra, 4.2.20

Yuvanāśva, son of Prasenajit, 4.2.24–36

Yuyudhāna, son of Satyaka, 4.14.1