Krishna's Lineage

by Simon Brodbeck

  Bhallāta (bhallāṭa) 15.26–27

  Bhāndīra (bhāṇḍīra) 52.25–27, 55.17–26, 58.1;

  and Pralamba 44.71, 58.9–29, 90.15–16

  Bhangakāra (bhaṅgakāra) 28.32–35, 87.46

  Bhānu daughter of Daksha 3.26–28

  Bhānu gods 3.28, 7.17

  Bhānu son of Krishna 98.7

  Bharadvāja 7.30, 14.1, 23.50–52;

  and Ashvatthāman 7.43

  Bharata 23.48–52

  Bhāratas (bharata, bhārata) 23.49, 160, 62.72;

  and divine plan 43.14, 25, 38, 44.1, 83, 45.9;

  war of 62.73, 97, 67.61, 105.18, 115.14–21;

  tale of 1.1, 7–8, 115.11–13;

  see also Arjuna son of Pāndu, Bhīshma, Janamejaya grandson of Abhimanyu, Yudhishthira

  Bhārga country 23.71

  Bhārga Forest 93.18

  Bhārgavas, see Aurva Bhārgava, Mārkandeya, Rāma son of Jamadagni, Shukra, Shunahshepa, Vatsa

  Bhāsī 3.81–82

  Bhauma, see Naraka Bhauma

  Bhautya 7.5, 41

  Bhava, see Shiva

  Bhayesakha 65.9

  Bhīma son of Pāndu, see Bhīmasena son of Pāndu

  Bhīma son of Vidarbha 26.20, 87.11

  Bhīmaratha son of Ketumat 23.57–65

  Bhīmaratha son of Krishna 98.7

  Bhīmaratha son of Vrikati 26.22–23

  Bhīmasena son of Pāndu 23.113;

  birth of 24.23, 62.92;

  and Baladeva 90.7;

  and Krishna 22.14, 97.18

  Bhīmasena son of Parikshit 23.110, 113

  Bhīmasena son of Riksha 23.113–14

  Bhīshma (bhīṣma) 11.5–19.33, 43.48, 101.4–5

  Bhīshmaka (bhīṣmaka) 87.11–12, 88.33, 96.52;

  and siege of Mathurā 80.10, 81.100, 82.2;

  and Rukminī 87.2, 17, 25, 30, 94.27;

  and Rukmin 80.11, 88.1, 5, 89.33, 50

  Bhogavat 93.40

  Bhoja 25.7

  Bhojas 23.159–60, 44.60–62;

  of Mrittikāvatī 27.15;

  Bhoja princes 27.23;

  Shūra’s Bhoja wife 24.14;

  and Arjuna 101.6, 104.2;

  and Kamsa 72.1, 76.36, 96.27, 42, 57–59;

  at siege of Mathurā 81.89;

  and Naraka’s jewels 95.6, 96.1–6;

  and Raivata 9.26;

  and Rukmin 81.40;

  and Ugrasena 80.6;

  see also Āhuka, Shatadhanvan, Ugrasena, Kamsa, Vaitarana, Rukminī, Gopati, Tālaketu

  Bhojakata (bhojakaṭa) 88.32–33

  Bhrāja 110.25

  Bhrigu (bhṛgu) 7.26, 20.12, 23;

  see also Bhārgavas

  Bhrigutunga (bhṛgutuṅga) 22.42

  Bhrishāshva (bhṛśāśva) 3.25, 55

  Bhūmi 98.27

  Bhūri 23.116

  Bhūrishravas (bhūriśravas) 23.116, 65.10, 81.42

  Bhūtasantāpana (bhūtasaṃtāpana) 3.64

  Bhūti 7.41

  Bindumatī 9.84–85

  Brahmā: as creator 1.18–19, 25–35, 3.2, 31.15;

  of Brahmashiras missile 112.88;

  of four classes 40.14;

  of discus 38.42;

  of the earth 42.14;

  of gods and ancestors 11.37, 12.21–32;

  of Madhu and Kaitabha 42.14–18;

  of Sanatkumāra 12.11–13;

  as father of Daksha 2.51;

  of seven seers 3.96, 7.7, 20.11, 35.42;

  of others 110.33;

  appoints sovereigns 4.1–17, 5.26;

  created by Vishnu 1.17–18, 32.7, 58.37;

  reabsorbed 7.53;

  inferior to Vedas 100.57–74;

  inferior to Vishnu 31.60, 32.4, 62.22;

  knowledge of Vishnu 31.10, 38.9, 39.11, 40.15–16, 62.29;

  praises Vishnu 38.55–64;

  in lotus 30.16, 40.11, 42.20–23;

  staff of 90.10;

  heaven of 62.27, 32, 100.15;

  visited by the earth 5.44, 41.18, 23, 42.13–43.66;

  by Nārada 44.12, 46.8–13;

  by Raivata 9.25, 31;

  by seers 7.36;

  by Vishnu 38.76–79, 39.1–7, 17–29;

  grants wishes to King Bali 23.30–31;

  to Bāna 112.67;

  to Dhruva 2.11;

  to Hiranyakashipu 31.34–53;

  to Naraka 91.34;

  to Paulomas and Kālakeyas 3.74;

  to Sixkids 47.13–20;

  to Ūrva 35.53–65;

  at rituals 3.95, 5.32;

  with cows 62.34, 37–38;

  praises Raji 21.13–17;

  and Soma 20.9, 19, 24, 35–36, 41–42;

  comes to wake Vishnu 40.37–42.12;

  organises divine plan 43.1–75, 45.2, 15–46, 62.13, 21;

  decreed death of Keshin 67.57;

  in Dvārakā groundplan 86.16;

  compared to Kālanemi 37.57–59;

  to Ūrva 35.24

  Brahmadatta: birth of 13.47, 15.3–13;

  lineage of 15.14–28, 65;

  as yogi 15.68, 19.22–27;

  and companions 15.68, 16.30–32, 18.14–23, 30–31, 19.15–22;

  and ancestral rite 16.1;

  and Sannati 19.1–12, 23–27

  Brahmashiras (brahmaśiras) 20.33, 112.37–42, 87–89

  Brihadashva (bṛhadaśva) 9.46–63

  Brihaddhanu (bṛhaddhanu) 15.15

  Brihaddharma (bṛhaddharma), see Brihaddhanu

  Brihaddurga (bṛhaddurga) 87.47, 55–58

  Brihadishu (bṛhadiṣu) son of Bāhyāshva 23.96

  Brihadishu son of Purumitra 15.15

  Brihadratha (bṛhadratha) 22.13, 80.3, 82.29, 87.18

  Brihaspati (bṛhaspati): as milker 6.17;

  as seer 7.11;

  as Vishnu 32.4;

  and Tārakā 20.29–40;

  and Indra 21.29–34, 34.51;

  and divine plan 43.5, 44.3;

  sister of 3.38;

  sons of 23.51, 65.39;

  as paradigmatic speaker 53.8, 81.32, 109.24

  Brihat (bṛhat) 23.73

  Brihatī (bṛhatī) wife of Gada 98.15

  Brihatī wife of Ripu 2.15

  Brihatkīrti (bṛhatkīrti) 31.73

  Brihatkshatra (bṛhatkṣatra) 81.44

  Buddha 116.15

  Budha 9.13–14, 20.37–44, 21.1;

  in Dvārakā groundplan 86.17

  Celestial Gangā 21.6, 46.10, 52.26, 93.21

  Chaitrā (caitrā) 26.15–18

  Chakradeva (cakradeva) 87.45, 61–62

  Chākshusha (cākṣuṣa) son of Kaksheyu 23.15

  Chākshusha the Manu, see Manu Chākshusha

  Chākshusha father of Manu 2.15

  Champa (campa) 23.38–39

  Champā (campā) 23.38

  Chandrahantri (candrahantṛ) 31.74;

  see also Svarbhānu

  Chandramas (candramas) 3.61

  Chandrāpīda (candrāpīḍa) 114.2–3

  Chānūra (cāṇūra) the king 89.17

  Chānūra the wrestler 45.5, 72.13–25;

  as Varāha 44.73;

  killed by Krishna 31.145, 75.7–76.1, 96.63

  Charishnu (cariṣṇu) 7.45

  Charmabhrit (carmabhṛt) 24.10, 28.40

  Chāru (cāru) 88.39

  Chārubāhu (cārubāhu) 88.38, 98.6

  Chārubhadra (cārubhadra) 98.6

  Chārudeshna (cārudeṣṇa) 24.29–31, 88.37, 98.5

  Chārugupta (cārugupta) 88.38, 98.6

  Chārumat (cārumat) 98.6

  Chārumatī (cārumatī) 88.39, 98.6

  Chāruvinda (cāruvinda) 88.38, 98.6

  Chaturanga (caturaṅga) 23.37–38

  Chedi (cedi) 22.13, 87.18–19;

  see also Shishupāla

  Chekitāna (cekitāna) 81.38

  Chhagala (chagala) 81.41

  Chhidradarshana (chidradarśana, chidradarśin) 16.29, 18.16

  Chitrā (citrā) daughter of Gada 98.16
/>   Chitrā daughter of Rohinī, see Subhadrā

  Chitraka (citraka) 24.3, 28.36;

  sons of 24.12–13, 28.43–44;

  in combat 81.102, 87.47, 68

  Chitralekhā (citralekhā) 107.6, 22–26, 58–87, 108.1–10, 109.72

  Chitrāngada (citrāṅgada) 13.37

  Chitraratha (citraratha) son of Dharmaratha 23.34–36

  Chitraratha son of Gada 98.16

  Chitraratha the light-elf 4.7, 6.33

  Chitraratha son of Rushadgu 9.84, 26.3–4

  Chitrasena (citrasena) son of Gada 98.16

  Chitrasena ally of Jarāsandha 81.81–87

  Chitravatī (citravatī) 98.16

  Chola (cola) 23.129

  Cholas 10.44, 23.129, 100.9

  Chyavana (cyavana) 7.11, 9.22, 23.117

  Dadhivāhana 23.33

  Dahana 110.24

  Daityas (daiteya, daitya) 1.1–2;

  in war over Tārakā 20.34, 30.17, 32.10–39.2, 44.20;

  in other struggles against gods 3.97, 21.13–23, 31.57, 65.42;

  origins of 2.48–50, 3.1, 58–80, 100.61–62, 106.59;

  and ancestors 11.36, 12.35, 13.42;

  at Bali’s sacrifice 30.19–20, 31.68–88, 32.6;

  under Bāna 106.58, 107.85, 108.18–50, 110.39–55, 112.3–10, 50, 69;

  painted by Chitralekhā 107.63–68;

  and divine plan 31.143–47, 43.70, 44.75–83, 45.3;

  in Dvārakā 91.4;

  under Hiranyakashipu 31.67;

  and Kamsa’s bow 71.42;

  killer of, see Vishnu the god;

  king of, see Bali the demon, Bāna, Hiranyakashipu, Prahrāda;

  milking earth 2.24–25, 4.20, 25–27;

  under Naraka 91.10, 48–52, 92.8–17, 29, 97.22;

  and seers 12.14;

  and Shiva’s activity 65.38;

  as superlative 13.16, 30.56, 62.15, 63.8, 113.76;

  and Tvashtri 8.45, 33.18;

  and Vishnu’s activity 38.14, 40.22, 46, 97.30;

  women of 38.8, 106.49, 52, 109.56;

  see also Arishta, Chānūra, Dhenuka, Drumila, Hamsa, Hayagrīva, Kaitabha, Kālanemi, Keshin, Khara, Kishora, Lamba, Lavana, Madhu, Maya, Māyāvatī, Naraka, Nimi, Nishumbha, Panchajana, Pralamba, Pūtanā, Rishta, Shambara, Shumbha, Sixkids, Tāra, Ushā, Varāha, Vichakra

  Daksha (dakṣa) 2.42–56, 3.2–23, 4.4;

  daughters of 3.23–109, 8.1, 20.21;

  favourite daughter of 3.13, 7.40

  Dāma 28.6

  Damaghosha (damaghoṣa) 87.18–22

  Damana 25.2

  Dāmana 81.39

  Dambha 21.11

  Dambhaka 28.6

  Dāmodara 51.36, 96.34;

  see Krishna Vāsudeva

  Dānavas 3.65–79;

  see Daityas

  Dandasena (daṇḍasena) 15.26–27

  Dandasharman (daṇḍaśarman) 28.3

  Dandāshva (daṇḍāśva) 9.78

  Dantavaktra 24.21–22;

  at Mathurā 80.10, 81.41, 82.2;

  in Vidarbha 87.26, 49–53, 61–62;

  killed by Krishna 97.5, 105.11;

  son of 87.3

  Danu 3.45, 65–79

  Darada 80.14, 81.47

  Daradas 85.19

  Dāruka 65.8, 86.78, 102.21–22

  Darvas 10.44

  Darvā 23.21–23

  Dashagrīva (daśagrīva) 87.21

  Dāshaka (dāśaka) 27.5

  Dasharatha (daśaratha) son of Aja 10.74, 65.43;

  see also Rāma son of Dasharatha

  Dasharatha son of Chitraratha, see Lomapāda

  Dasharatha son of Navaratha 26.23

  Dāsharathi (dāśarathi) 23.37;

  see also Rāma son of Dasharatha

  Dashārha (daśārha) 26.21–22

  Dāshārhas (daśārha, dāśārha): in Mathurā 81.51;

  in Vidarbha 87.42;

  in Dvārakā 93.29, 35;

  and Krishna 94.13, 95.11–15, 109.26, 113.51;

  wives of 96.7;

  and proper conduct 97.36;

  see also Krishna Vāsudeva

  Dashārnas (daśārṇa) 16.17, 19.18, 80.13

  Dasra 8.39;

  see also Ashvins

  Datta Ātreya 7.11, 43, 23.139–40, 31.93–99

  Datta son of Rājādhideva 28.2

  Dattashatru (dattaśatru) 28.3

  Death 41.4, 16, 23, 43.66, 44.1;

  birth of 3.60;

  power of 48.47–50;

  daughter of 2.19, 5.2–3;

  and divine plan 43.5, 58, 44.4;

  and death of Aniruddha 108.79;

  of kings 81.11;

  of Krishna 112.53;

  of Shambara 99.5;

  compared to Aniruddha 108.44;

  to Arishta 64.2;

  to Baladeva 81.67, 110.50;

  to Dhenuka 57.16;

  to Fever 110.57;

  to Kālanemi 36.53–60, 38.60;

  to Krishna 109.6;

  to Pralamba 58.27–29;

  to missile of Vishnu 112.26;

  see also Time

  Devabhāga 24.18, 25

  Devaka 27.25–27

  Devakī: and Vasudeva 25.4, 27.27, 45.36–38, 91.21, 113.72;

  and Kamsa 46.15, 47.1–38, 48.1–51;

  and Krishna 69.8–26, 76.11, 24, 94.15, 96.8–10;

  and women collected by Naraka 94.26;

  daughter of, see Sleep, Ekānamshā;

  son of, see Krishna Vāsudeva

  Devakshatra (devakṣatra) 26.24–25

  Devala 3.37, 13.22;

  and Sannati 18.22–23, 19.24

  Devamīdhusha (devamīḍhuṣa) 24.1–3, 14, 28.10

  Devānīka 10.77

  Devānta 28.6–7

  Devāpi 23.114, 117

  Devarakshita (devarakṣita) 27.26

  Devarakshitā (devarakṣitā) 27.27

  Devarāta son of Karambha 26.24

  Devarāta son of Vishvāmitra 23.86;

  see Shunahshepa

  Devarātas 23.89

  Devashravas (devaśravas) son of Shūra 24.18

  Devashravas son of Vishvāmitra 23.87

  Devavat 27.26

  Devāvridha (devāvṛdha) 27.1, 6–14

  Devayānī 22.3–4

  Dhananjaya (dhanaṃjaya) son of Pāndu, see Arjuna son of Pāndu

  Dhananjaya the snake 3.88

  Dhānanjayyas (dhānaṃjayya) 23.89

  Dhanvantari (dhanvaṃtari) 23.56

  Dhanvin 7.20

  Dhara 3.32–34

  Dharma son of Anu 23.133

  Dharma son of Chitraka 28.44

  Dharma the god 2.8;

  as Vishnu 32.4;

  and Daksha’s daughters 2.47, 3.24–29;

  and Yudhishthira 24.23, 43.63, 44.2, 62.92

  Dharmabhrit (dharmabhṛt) 24.13, 28.44

  Dharmanetra 23.136

  Dharmaratha 23.34–35

  Dhārshnika (dhārṣṇika) 9.22

  Dhātri (dhātṛ) 3.50, 7.18

  Dhenuka 57.11–23;

  as Khara 44.72;

  and Kamsa 46.25;

  death of in lists 65.2, 28, 90.16, 96.39

  Dhīmat 21.10

  Dhishanā (dhiṣaṇā) 2.28

  Dhrishnu (dhṛṣṇu) son of Kukura 27.17

  Dhrishnu son of Manu Sāvarna 7.45

  Dhrishnu son of Manu Vaivasvata 9.1, 22

  Dhrishta (dhṛṣṭa) 26.20–21

  Dhrishtadyumna (dhṛṣṭadyumna) 100.8

  Dhrishtokta (dhṛṣṭokta) 23.157

  Dhrita (dhṛta) 23.133

  Dhritarāshtra (dhṛtarāṣṭra) son of Bali 3.61

  Dhritarāshtra the snake 3.88, 6.23

  Dhritarāshtra son of Vichitravīrya 23.120, 100.8;

  wife and sons of 43.50–52, 62.95

  Dhriti (dhṛti) the brahmin 18.25

  Dhriti the goddess 20.26

  Dhritimat (dhṛtimat) son of Manu Raivata 7.24

  Dhritimat son of Manu Sāvarna 7.45

  D
hritimat son of Yavīnara 15.31

  Dhruva 2.8–14, 3.32–33

  Dhūminī 23.74, 103–06

  Dhundhu 9.47–77

  Dhundhumāra, see Kuvalāshva

  Dilīpa son of Amshumat 10.64–66

  Dilīpa son of Anamitra 10.73

  Dilīpa son of Vishvamahat 13.55–57

  Dīrghajihva 31.73

  Dīrghatapas 23.55–56

  Diti 3.45;

  and Daityas 3.58–64, 31.61;

  and Maruts 3.97–109;

  and Rishta 44.70;

  and Naraka 91.34;

  and Vishnu 106.23;

  and Bāna 112.60

  Diviratha 23.33–34

  Divodāsa 23.57–65

  Do-as-you-Please heavens 13.59

  Draupadī 114.9

  Dravidas (draviḍa) 100.9

  Dravina (draviṇa) 3.34

  Dridhanemi (dṛḍhanemi) 15.32

  Dridhāshva (dṛḍhāśva) 9.78–79

  Dridhavratā (dṛḍhavratā) 28.34

  Dridhāyus (dṛḍhāyus) 21.10

  Drishadvatī (dṛṣadvatī) mother of Ashtaka 23.93

  Drishadvatī daughter of Samhatāshva 9.81

  Drishadvatī wife of Ushīnara 23.21–24

  Drona (droṇa) 7.43, 15.63–64, 84.28, 97.18

  Druhyu 22.3–4, 22.16, 22.29;

  lineage of 23.1–3, 122, 130–32

  Druma son of Krishna 98.6

  Druma the wild-elf 81.39;

  and Rukmin 87.13, 89.50

  Drumila 73.18–35

  Drupada 15.61–65, 23.102

  Duduha 23.133

  Duhshanta (duḥṣanta) son of Sammatā 23.126–28

  Duhshanta son of Suraugha 23.47–49

  Duliduha, see Anamitra son of Nighna

  Durdama son of Bhadrashrenya 23.63–65

  Durdama son of Vasudeva 25.2

  Durdharsha (durdharṣa) 4.14

  Durmukha 3.89

  Duryodhana (duryodhana, suyodhana): and Baladeva 29.28, 90.8–13;

  and Krishna 97.18, 100.5–8;

  daughter of 90.8, 12

  Dvārakā: and Raivata 9.26;

  and Vrishnis 25.16, 85.36, 86.52, 97.44, 113.61;

  and Syamantaka affair 28.12, 27, 29.5–9, 22, 29–33;

  founding of 84.20–35, 85.5, 86.1–74, 91.22;

  management of 86.75–79, 91.1–4, 109.87;

  and treasure 85.67, 86.54–62, 89.53, 91.3, 92.17–18, 97.44;

  and abduction of Rukminī 87.44–48, 88.29, 34;

  and Shubhāngī 89.8;

  town crier of 95.7–8;

  descriptions of 86.44–51, 91.23–25, 93.1–94.7;

  and Garuda 92.66–93.1, 94.8–17, 113.5, 44–55;

  and kings 100.5–10, 105.7;

  and Indra 91.26–43, 113.62–70;

  and Arjuna 101.6, 102.19, 103.30;

  and Chitralekhā 107.84–108.6;

  accessibility of 107.80–81, 112.52–55;

  demise of 97.32–35;

  see also Kushasthalī

  Dvāravatī, see Dvārakā

  Dvimīdha (dvimīḍha) 23.73

  Dvimūrdhan 3.66

  Dvivida 31.144, 105.20, 109.40

  Dyumatsena 97.7