bow of 65.89–91, 69.4, 71.37–54, 96.53;
funeral of 77.48–51, 78.25–32, 40–47;
mother of 73.10–37, 77.38–59;
wives of 77.1–37, 53, 59, 78.3–6, 15, 80.3–7
Kamsā (kaṃsā) 27.29
Kamsavatī (kaṃsavatī) 27.29
Kāmyā 2.5–6
Kanavaka 24.18, 32
Kānchana (kāñcana) 93.39
Kandarīka (kaṇḍarīka) 15.68, 16.30, 19.28;
as Brahmadatta’s minister 15.12, 18.17–20, 19.15–22;
see also Vatsas
Kanka (kaṅka) 87.46, 67
Kankā (kaṅkā) 27.29
Kanku (kaṅku) 27.28
Kānta 23.136–37
Kāpālin 98.17–18
Kapardin 3.43
Kapila son of Danu 3.66
Kapila the seer 10.48, 31.15
Kapila the snake 3.89
Kapila son of Vāsudeva 98.21–22
Kapila son of Vitatha 23.53–54
Kapilāshva (kapilāśva) 9.78
Kapīvat 7.18
Kapotaroman 27.17
Karāla 31.77
Karambha 26.24
Karandhama (karaṃdhama) 23.124
Kardama 2.6, 4.12, 13.58
Kārīshis (kārīṣi) 23.90
Karkotaka (karkoṭaka) 3.88, 70.24
Karna (karṇa) son of Haryanga 23.40
Karna son of the sun 15.26, 62.94, 97.18
Kārta, see Ugrāyudha
Kārtavīrya, see Arjuna son of Kritavīrya
Kārttikeya, see Skanda
Karūsha (karūṣa) 9.2, 36
Kārūshas (karūṣa, kārūṣa) 9.36, 75.22, 81.38, 87.71;
see also Dantavaktra
Kasheru (kaśeru) 91.7–8
Kasherumat (kaśerumat) 97.6
Kāshi/s (kāśi) 23.54–55, 66–67;
king of 23.66, 24.5–7, 80.13, 87.7, 97.11;
Sāndīpani as 79.3–4, 24, 86.76, 95.5;
Gāndinī as 24.7, 28.37;
Vapushtamā as 114.2, 118.12, 25;
unnamed women of 25.5, 27.16, 25, 98.24
Kāshika (kāśika) 23.54
Kashmir (kaśmīra) 81.38, 117.29
Kashyapa (kaśyapa): as seer 7.30;
wives of 2.47, 3.24, 45;
as father of demons 3.58, 70, 72–73;
of Garuda 34.39, 38.4;
of gods 3.49, 8.1, 4–5;
of Maruts 3.97–104;
of Merusāvarnas 7.39;
of Nārada 3.8–13;
of Stamba 7.11;
as ancestor 3.93, 7.44, 115.40–41;
receives earth 31.106, 42.40–46;
and Brahmā 43.15–17;
and cows 45.20–34, 45
Kati 23.87
Kātyāyanas 23.87
Kaumodakī 81.59–64
Kauravas 1.5;
lineage of 23.107–08, 43.45, 72, 62.74;
at siege of Mathurā 81.45;
destruction of 115.14–15;
king of, see Duryodhana, Shantanu;
town of, see Hāstinapura;
see also Arjuna son of Pāndu, Bhīshma, Janamejaya grandson of Abhimanyu, Yudhishthira
Kausalyā 27.1
Kaushāmbī (kauśāmbī) 81.42
Kaushika (kauśika) the brahmin 14.4, 15.2, 16.5
Kaushika son of Vasudeva 24.28
Kaushikas 23.84–94;
see also Gālava, Vishvāmitra
Kaushikī (kauśikī) the goddess 47.47
Kaushikī River 117.28
Kaushikī daughter of Yudhishthira 98.18
Kāverī 23.80
Kavi son of Kaushika 16.4, 8
Kavi son of Manu Chākshusha 2.17
Kāvya 7.18
Kerala 23.129
Keralans 10.44, 23.129
Keshava (keśava) 67.58;
see Krishna Vāsudeva
Keshin (keśi, keśin) 31.77, 144, 49.10, 67.3–58;
and Kamsa 44.67, 45.4, 46.25, 62.69, 65.32;
Krishna as killer of 69.20, 84.35, 86.4, 112.39, 110
Keshinī (keśinī) 23.74–75
Ketu 3.67
Ketumat the demon 31.70, 76
Ketumat son of Dhanvantari 23.56–57
Ketumat son of Kshema 23.69
Ketumat Palace 93.50–51
Ketumat son of Rajas 4.13
Ketuvīrya 3.67
Khalā 23.8
Khāndava (khāṇḍava) 105.16
Khara 37.6;
as Dhenuka 44.72, 45.6
Khasā 3.92
Khashas (khaśa) 10.31, 85.19
Khasrima (khasṛma) the demon 3.77, 31.77
Khasrima Fire 110.24
Khasrima son of Kaushika 16.4, 8
Khatvānga (khaṭvāṅga) son of Amshumat 10.64–66
Khatvānga Grove 65.47
Kīnāsha (kīnāśa) 28.6
Kīrti 20.26
Kīrtimat 2.9
Kishora (kiśora) 33.21, 37.7;
as Mushtika 44.73
Kola 23.129
Kolisarpas 10.44
Kopana 31.72
Kosala 80.13;
see also Kausalyā
Kotavī (kauṭavī, koṭavī) 112.49, 97–101
Kramana (kramaṇa) 27.4
Kratha the demon 31.72
Kratha son of Vidarbha 26.19, 87.10–11
Krathas 87.30, 88.5, 15, 89.45;
see also Amshumat
Kratu the seer 1.29, 7.7, 12.14
Kratu son of Ūru 2.18
Krauncha (krauñca) son of Maya 36.24
Krauncha the mountain 13.14
Krikaneyu (kṛkaṇeyu) 23.6
Krimi (kṛmi) 23.23–25
Krimī (kṛmī) 23.21–23
Krimilā (kṛmilā) 23.25
Krimilāshva (kṛmilāśva) 23.97
Kripa (kṛpa) 97.18
Krishāshva (kṛśāśva) 9.80
Krishna (kṛṣṇa) son of Arjuna 23.157
Krishna son of Asamaujas 28.8
Krishna Dvaipāyana, see Vyāsa
Krishna son of Havirdhāna 2.28
Krishna son of Shuka 13.47
Krishna Vāsudeva 46.1–113.84;
in lineage 25.4, 15;
and Syamantaka 28.14–34, 29.1–40;
as Vishnu 30.1–5, 39–54;
chariot of 22.14;
deeds of listed by Kamsa 65.1–6, 25–32;
by Nārada 96.25–97.41;
by Vaishampāyana 31.143–47, 105.4–22;
greatness of 31.12, 78.19, 83.11, 101.1, 4, 104.24, 113.79–80;
wives and sons of 88.34–44, 98.1–14
Kritadhanvan (kṛtadhanvan) 23.137
Kritāgni (kṛtāgni) 23.137
Kritaujas (kṛtaujas) 23.137
Kritavarman (kṛtavarman) 28.5, 65.10;
in battle 87.45, 64
Kritavīrya (kṛtavīrya) 23.137;
see also Arjuna son of Kritavīrya
Kriti (kṛti) the hunter 16.19
Kriti son of Manu Raivata 7.24
Krittikās (kṛttikā) 3.36, 106.48
Kritvī (kṛtvī) 13.47, 15.4–7, 23, 18.5
Krodha 31.75
Krodhahantri (krodhahantṛ) 31.74
Krodhana 16.4
Krodhavardhana 31.74
Krodhavashā (krodhavaśā) 3.45, 90
Kroshtu (kroṣṭṛ, kroṣṭu) 23.134, 167–68;
wives and sons of 24.1, 24, 26.1, 28.9
Kshānta (kṣānta) 16.19
Kshara (kṣara) 33.17
Kshatradharman (kṣatradharman) 81.44
Kshema (kṣema) 23.69
Kshemadhanvan (kṣemadhanvan) 10.76–77
Kshemaka (kṣemaka) 23.58, 68
Kshupa (kṣupa) 98.7
Kubera 4.3, 6.29;
and Akrūra 68.15;
as son of Ilavilā 108.3;
as guardian of wealth 31.45, 86.55, 92.7;
as world-guardian 31.45, 34.16–19, 48, 37.18, 49, 38.68, 43.3;
pleasure-grove of 21
.6, 22.34, 46.9, 54.40, 56.46, 93.13, 20
Kuhara 3.89
Kuhū 20.26
Kukshi (kukṣi) son of Bali 3.62
Kukshi son of Kāmyā 2.6
Kukura 27.16–17, 30
Kukuras 27.30, 29.32, 94.10–13
Kumāra, see Skanda
Kumbha 31.71
Kumbhanābha 3.62
Kumbhānda (kumbhāṇḍa) 106.20–62, 108.75–78, 88–98;
drives chariot 108.52, 58, 112.33;
rallies troops 112.12–13;
daughter of 107.39–57
Kumuda 98.15
Kundina (kuṇḍina) 87.12, 88.2, 31–33
Kunti 26.20
Kuntī 24.19–23, 43.51, 63;
and Krishna 62.97, 97.17, 105.18;
son of, see Arjuna son of Pāndu
Kuntis 24.20–22
Kupana 31.72
Kuru 22.8, 23.107–09;
descendants of, see Kauravas
Kurus, see Kauravas
Kurukshetra (kurukṣetra) 23.107–08;
and sons of Kaushika 14.4, 15.2, 16.3
Kusha (kuśa) 10.75
Kushasthalī (kuśasthalī) 9.23–26, 32, 25.16;
see also Dvārakā
Kushika (kuśika) 9.100, 23.82–84, 47.47;
see also Kaushikas
Kushīnara (kuśīnara) 25.2
Kuvalāshva (kuvalāśva) 9.46–79
Kuvalayāpīda (kuvalayāpīḍa) 45.5, 73.1–7, 74.17;
death of 31.145, 74.22–39, 96.62
Lakshmana (lakṣmaṇa) 31.116
Lakshmanā (lakṣmaṇā) 88.42, 98.3, 11–12;
palace of 93.46
Lakshmī (lakṣmī): and Soma 20.26;
and Vishnu 38.1;
and Mathurā 85.2;
and Sītā 31.117;
and Rukminī 87.33–35;
and Ekānamshā 96.18
Lamba (lamba, pralamba) 31.75, 33.22, 37.6;
and Pralamba 44.71
Lambā 3.26–28
Latāveshta (latāveṣṭa) 93.15–18, 109.35
Lauhi 23.94
Lavana (lavaṇa) 31.127, 44.23–53
Lekha gods 7.28
Lohita 97.13, 105.10
Lohitaganga (lohitagaṅga) 91.51
Lohityas 23.90
Lomaharshana (lomaharṣaṇa) 1.5, 114.1
Lomapāda 23.36–37
Lopāmudrā 23.67
Mada 31.76
Madgu 24.9, 28.39
Mādhava son of Manu Auttama 7.17
Mādhavas 23.161–62, 26.25, 100.6;
see also Baladeva, Krishna Vāsudeva
Madhu the demon/s 6.26;
story of 42.14–33;
killed by Vishnu 31.18, 34.35, 38.6, 18, 42.30, 112.107;
hence name Madhusūdana 91.55, 102.19;
fat of 6.39, 42.31–33;
sons of 9.54, 31.127;
and Madhu’s Forest 31.127, 44.22, 53
Madhu son of Devakshatra 26.25–26, 28.36
Madhu son of Manu Auttama 7.17
Madhu son of Vrisha 23.161–62
Madhus, see Mādhavas
Madhusūdana 91.55, see Krishna Vāsudeva, Vishnu
Madrā 23.8
Madras 81.38;
king of 80.14, 88.42
Mādrī wife of Kroshtu 24.1–3, 28.9–10
Mādrī wife of Pāndu 43.51, 63, 62.93
Mādrī, see also Subhīmā
Magadha 5.39, 87.18, 71;
king of, see Jarāsandha
Maghavat son of Danu 3.67
Maghavat, see Indra
Mahābala 3.77
Mahābhisha (mahābhiṣa), see Shantanu
Mahājihva 31.73
Mahākāla 112.125;
see also Bāna
Mahākarna (mahākarṇa) 3.88
Mahāmanas the brahmin 18.25
Mahāmanas son of Mahāsāla 23.19–20
Mahānābha 3.64
Mahānīla 3.88
Mahāpadma 3.87
Mahāsāla 23.18–19
Mahāshiras (mahāśiras) 3.69
Mahāsvana 31.73
Mahendra 31.108, 97.8
Maheshvara (maheśvara), see Shiva
Mahimnāra 15.17
Māhishakas (māhiṣaka) 10.44
Maināka 13.13–14, 108.84
Mainda 31.144, 105.20, 109.40
Maladā 23.8
Malahā 23.8
Mālavas 81.40–42
Mālinī wife of Shvetakarna 114.6–9
Mālinī the town 23.38
Mānasa heavens 13.62
Mānasa Lake 14.2
Manasyu 23.4
Mandara: on earth 31.104;
as churning-rod 65.42;
as axle 32.26;
in similes 33.6, 13, 34.40, 36.48, 52, 59, 52.24, 83.24, 84.27, 93.16
Māndhātri (māndhātṛ) 9.83–85, 23.131, 85.40
Mani 3.90
Manoharā 3.34
Manu Auttama 7.4, 14–17
Manu Chākshusha (cākṣuṣa) 2.15–17, 7.4;
era of 3.47–52, 4.17, 7.26–29
Manu Raivata 7.4, 22–25
Manu Sāvarna (sāvarṇa) 7.5, 39, 8.16–18;
era of 7.43–45;
as planet 8.43–44, 47
Manu son of the self-born 2.4, 58.38;
as calf 6.14;
era of 7.3–10;
see also Āpava, Vairāja the cosmic person
Manu Svārochisha (svārociṣa) 3.94, 7.4, 11–14
Manu Tāmasa 7.4, 18–21
Manu Vaivasvata 7.4, 55;
era of 3.46–52, 95, 4.17–18, 7.30–33;
as child 8.6–7, 17–19, 43–44;
as dynast 9.1–38, 42.46–48;
and ancestral rites 13.64–67
Mānya 2.14
Mārīcha (mārīca) 31.114
Marīchi (mārīci) son of Danu 3.67
Marīchi the seer 1.29, 5.8, 7.7;
sons of 13.24;
son of, see Kashyapa
Marīchigarbha heavens (marīcigarbha) 13.53
Mārishā (māriṣā) 2.40–45
Mārkandeya (mārkaṇḍeya) 11.5–7, 11.40–15.13, 15.66–19.34;
and Vishnu as boar 42.34
Mārtanda (mārtaṇḍa), see Vivasvat
Maruts (marut, marutvat) 3.27, 97–109;
and Angārasetu 23.130;
and Bāna 106.8;
and Brahmā 31.36;
and Indra 4.4, 65.45, 87.51;
and Kamsa’s team 65.18;
and Krishna 63.5, 109.3, 113.45, 77;
and Manu eras 7.32;
in war over Tārakā 34.31;
and Vishnu 32.32;
homes of 92.48
Marutta son of Avikshit 23.124
Marutta son of Karandhama 23.124–25
Marutta son of Shineyu 26.7–8
Marutvatī 3.26–27
Mātali 34.10
Mathurā 44.21–61;
countryside near 45.35, 84.2, 96.29;
Nārada visits 46.1–2;
and Devakī 46.15;
and Kamsa 65.6–11, 73, 67.3, 77.34, 96.53–61;
and Akrūra’s mission 65.100–01, 69.2;
Krishna and Baladeva arrive in 71.5, 96.59–61;
live in 79.1–2;
return to 79.25–37, 83.13;
Baladeva returns to 83.51–52;
and Ugrasena 78.47;
siege of 80.7–81.1;
and Kālayavana 25.14, 84.12, 85.18–37;
abandoned 25.16, 84.2–7, 17, 85.2–3, 35;
tale of 31.143–47, 113.73–74
Matināra 23.43
Mātrivartin (mātṛvartin) 16.19
Matsya 97.15
Maudgalya son of Mudgala 23.99
Maudgalya son of Vishvāmitra 23.88
Maya 33.2–8;
and Aurva spell 35.18–19;
and mountain spell 36.21–24;
defeated 36.39;
and Kālanemi 36.59, 37.3–6, 38.30;
in Prāgjyotish
a 44.74
Māyāvatī 99.6–49
Medhas 7.9
Medhātithi 7.9
Medinī 6.39, 42.33;
see Earth
Meghapushpa (meghapuṣpa) 102.21
Mekalas 117.29
Menā 13.13–19
Meru the mountain: as milker 6.36;
as chariot pole 32.27;
as landmark 31.104, 34.10, 110.12, 62;
and Urvashī 21.7;
and sun 34.21;
and Vishnu 45.48;
and Dvārakā 93.56–57, 61;
and Krishna 103.15;
and austerities 7.39–40, 8.43–44, 9.28–30, 12.4;
and gods 41.32, 42.7, 46.8, 12, 92.47;
in similes 33.8, 37.42, 67.39, 74.15, 93.32, 39
Meru Palace 93.43–44
Meruprabha 93.18
Merusāvarnas (merusāvarṇa) 7.5, 39–40
Mithilā 29.19, 23, 28–29
Mitra 3.51, 9.3–12, 96.10
Mitrasaha, see Kalmāshapāda
Mitravāha 98.8
Mitravat 98.8
Mitravatī 98.8
Mitravinda 98.8
Mitravindā, see Kālindī
Mother, see Purutvat, Satvat
Mridupāda (mṛdupāda) 31.73
Mridupriya (mṛdupriya) 31.73
Mridura (mṛdara, mṛdura) 24.9, 28.39;
in battle 81.102–04, 87.47
Mrittikāvatī (mṛtikāvatī, mṛttikāvatī) 26.14, 27.15
Muchukunda (mucukunda) 9.85, 85.40–64
Mudgala 23.96, 99
Muhūrtā 3.26–28
Muni daughter of Daksha 3.45, 92
Muni the duck 16.29
Muni son of Vaitandya 3.33
Mura (mura, muru) 91.14–15, 19;
snares of 91.44–45, 97.1;
death of 91.45, 92.28, 96.66
Mūrti 7.12
Mūrtilinga (mūrtiliṅga), see Prāgjyotisha
Mushtika (muṣṭika) 31.145, 45.5, 72.13–25;
as Kishora 44.73;
and Baladeva 76.1–2, 5–9
Nabha son of Manu Auttama 7.17
Nabha son of Manu Svārochisha 7.13
Nabha son of Nala 10.76
Nabha the seer 7.26
Nābhāga son of Manu Vaivasvata 9.1, 21, 36
Nābhāga son of Shruta 10.67–68
Nābhānedishtha (nābhānediṣṭha) 9.2
Nabhasya son of Manu Auttama 7.17
Nabhasya son of Manu Svārochisha 7.13
Nabhasya the month 37.31, 54.31, 55.9
Nādāyanī (nārāyaṇī) 89.7
Nādin 16.23
Nadvalā (naḍvalā) 2.16–17, 7.29
Nagnajit 80.15, 88.41
Nāgnajitī (nagnajitī, nāgnajitī) 88.41, 98.3;
children of 98.9;
see Gāndhārī wife of Krishna
Nahusha (nahuṣa) the snake 3.90
Nahusha son of Āyus 13.60, 21.11, 22.1;
as father of Yayāti 22.15–17, 85.57, 114.17
Naigamesha (naigameṣa) 3.36
Nairrita demons (nairṛta) 91.3, 9–10, 15, 108.70;
Naraka as 91.34
Nakula 62.93
Nala son of Nishadha 10.76
Nala son of Vīrasena 10.69
Namuchi (namuci) 3.77, 31.74
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