Nanda: and Vasudeva 49.2–13;
travels to cattle station 49.13–50.1;
and upturned cart 50.12–18;
and Pūtanā 50.23–29;
and two boys 51.10–12;
and arjuna trees 51.28–35;
and Kāliya 56.14–23, 42–45;
and Kamsa 65.21–24, 27, 58, 83–84, 76.20, 24;
and Akrūra 68.14–15, 39, 69.1, 27;
as leader of cowherds 53.7–12, 60.27, 61.3, 76.10, 96.48;
wife of 47.33, 48.12
Nandaka 32.24
Nandin (nandi, nandika, nandin) 112.14, 28, 83–86, 114–15
Nara the seer 43.67
Nara son of Shvaphalka 28.40
Nārā 1.24
Narāchī (narācī) 98.21–22
Nārada: and news of Aniruddha 109.64–81;
and Daksha’s sons 3.7–20;
and Kālayavana 25.13, 83.16–17, 85.26;
and Kamsa 46.1–30, 47.8, 65.45–59, 73.9;
and Kārtavīrya 23.148–50;
extols Krishna 67.52–68, 96.22–97.42, 100.18–86, 113.73;
and Muchukunda 85.45, 54, 59;
and Naraka’s women 93.32;
and news of Pradyumna 99.41;
and Vishnu 44.6–83, 45.1–16
Naraka Bhauma 91.5–92.33;
town of 44.74, 45.8;
women collected by 91.12–15, 92.22–37, 94.24–28, 96.2;
death of mentioned by Anādhrishti 109.40;
by Krishna 96.1;
by Nārada 96.67, 97.1, 29;
by Vaishampāyana 31.146, 105.9
Naraka son of Simhikā 3.78, 31.75
Narānta 28.6
Nārāyana (nārāyaṇa) ashram 40.1–3, 34
Nārāyana the god 1.23–24;
see Vishnu the god
Nāreya 28.35
Narishyanta (nariṣyanta) 9.2, 21
Narmadā: as wife 9.86, 13.63;
conquered by Jyāmagha 26.14;
and Rukminī’s abduction 88.6
Nāsamaujas 28.7–8
Nāsatya 8.39;
see also Ashvins
Nava 23.23–25
Navā 23.21–23
Navaratha 26.23
New Country 23.25
Nighna son of Anamitra 28.11
Nighna son of Anaranya 10.72
Nikrittashatru (nikṛttaśatru) 87.7
Nikumbha the demon 23.59
Nikumbha son of Haryashva 9.79–80
Nīla the mountain 103.14
Nīla son of Yadu 23.134
Nīlī 23.74, 95
Nimi son of Bhajamāna 27.4
Nimi the demon 97.10
Nīpa son of Pāra 15.18–19
Nīpa grandfather of Prishata 15.35
Nīpas 15.19–20, 28, 35–37, 61, 16.34
Nirmanyu 16.19
Nirmoha 7.25
Nirutsuka 7.24
Nirvaira 16.19
Nirvrita (nirvṛta) 16.19
Nishadha (niṣadha) 10.75–76
Nishatha (niśaṭha) 25.4, 98.20
Nishumbha (niśumbha) 47.49, 65.51
Nisunda 91.19;
death of 91.45, 92.8, 28, 96.66, 97.1, 109.40
Nityavitrasta 16.23
Nivātakavachas (nivātakavaca) 3.80
Nivrittashatru (nivṛttaśatru) 24.26, 87.46, 66
Northern Kurus 8.15, 21.7, 103.13
Nriga (nṛga) 23.23–24, 105.19
Nrigā (nṛgā) 23.21–23
Nyagrodha 27.28
Padmakūta (padmakūṭa) 93.45
Padmāvatī 28.34
Pahlavas 10.27, 31, 38–43, 23.82, 85.19
Paippalādas 114.11
Pāka 3.105, 9.95, 10.10, 24.5, 29.31, 61.7, 96.71, 99.19
Pālin 2.27
Pālita 26.11–12
Panchajana (pañcajana) the demon 79.14–21, 91.19, 52, 96.66
Panchajana Forest 93.17
Panchajana son of Sagara 10.50, 58, 63–64
Pānchajanya conch (pāñcajanya): discovery of 79.16, 20, 105.14;
sounding of 94.8–10, 97.2, 112.32, 113.21, 47–48
Pānchāla (pāñcāla) 18.17–20, 19.19–22, 29;
see also Bābhravya
Pānchālas (pañcāla, pāñcāla) 15.35, 23.98, 24.29, 43.72
Panchavana (pañcavana) 23.100
Panchavarna (pañcavarṇa) 93.15, 33
Panchika (pañcika) 16.30
Pāndavas (pāṇḍava) 1.11, 29.8, 44.2, 62.97, 100.8, 105.16–18, 114.1, 7, 16, 115.10;
see also Arjuna son of Pāndu, Bhīmasena son of Pāndu, Nakula, Sahadeva, Yudhishthira
Pandita (paṇḍita) 16.23
Pāndu (pāṇḍu) 23.120–21, 24.22, 43.50–51, 62.91–95
Pāndya (pāṇḍya) 23.129
Pāndyas 23.129, 100.9;
king of 80.15, 87.5, 89.18, 97.15
Pānins (pāṇin) 23.89
Pāra son of Prithushena 15.18
Pāra son of Samara 15.21
Pāradas 10.27, 31, 38–45, 85.19
Parājit 26.11
Paramekshu (paramekṣu) 23.15
Paramount Palace 93.47–49
Parantapa (paraṃtapa) 7.20
Parāshara (parāśara) 13.36, 45, 118.4
Pārijāta Tree 92.63–67, 93.57–58, 109.42–45;
in Dvārakā 94.19–23;
in lists 97.14, 105.10
Parikshit (parikṣit, parīkṣit) son of Abhimanyu 23.113, 121;
son of, see Janamejaya grandson of Abhimanyu
Parikshit son of Kuru 22.8, 23.109–10, 113
Pāriplava 7.23
Parjanya the god 28.13, 59.17, 116.18;
see also Indra
Parjanya the patriarch 4.14, 7.22
Parnāshā (parṇāśā) 27.6–11
Pārvatī the cave 45.48
Pārvatī the goddess, see Umā
Pataga 110.25
Patara (paṭara) 110.25
Patusha (paṭuśa) 87.7, 61–62
Paulomas 3.74
Paulomī, see Shachī
Paundra (pauṇḍra) 98.21–22;
at Mathurā 80.10;
in Vidarbha 87.27, 64–65;
felling of 97.15;
son of 87.4
Paundras (pauṇḍra, puṇḍraka) 23.32, 87.50;
see also Paundra
Pauravas 114.18;
chariot of 22.7;
Brahmadatta as 15.14;
Sannati as 15.34;
Vibhrāja as 16.34;
Vishvāmitra as 23.91;
Rohinī as 25.1;
Jāmbavatī as 98.4;
Duhshanta as 23.126–27;
unnamed Paurava 81.40
Payoda 23.134
Phena 23.26–27
Pindāraka (piṇḍāraka) 25.2
Pishuna (piśuna) 16.4
Pītha (pīṭha) 97.24
Pitrivartin (pitṛvartin) 15.3, 16.4–11
Pīvarī 13.44–46
Prabhā 3.71, 20.26, 21.17–18
Prabhākara 23.9–13
Prabhāsa the place 79.11
Prabhāsa the Vasu 3.32, 38–41
Prabhu son of Kāmyā 2.6
Prabhu son of Shuka 13.47
Prabhūta gods 7.28
Prachetas (pracetas) son of Duduha 23.133
Prachetases 2.32–45;
and Daksha 2.51, 3.18, 30, 20.21
Prāchetasa (prācetasa), see Daksha
Prāchīnabarhis (prācīnabarhi, prācīnabarhis) 2.28–32, 39
Pradyumna: and Dvārakā 101.17;
and Krishna 94.18–19;
and Māyāvatī 99.6–49;
and Rukminī 88.37, 89.11, 98.5, 99.30–49;
and Shambara 99.1–28, 44, 100.1, 109.29;
and Shonitapura 109.88, 110.8, 18, 48, 52, 112.33–36;
and Shubhāngī 89.3–9, 98.19;
son of, see Aniruddha
Prāgjyotisha (prāgjyotiṣa) 44.74, 45.8, 91.5–20;
Krishna at 91.43, 52–53, 97.22, 105.9
as king of demons 4.4, 21.21
Prakāsha (prakāśa) 7.25
Prakriti gods (prakṛti) 7.23
Pralamba 58.12–58;
as Lamba 44.71, 45.6;
and Kamsa 46.25;
death of mentioned 65.2, 29, 90.16;
by Nārada 96.43
Pramada 31.76
Prāmshu (prāṃśu) 9.2
Prāna (prāṇa) 3.34, 7.11
Prāpti 80.3–7
Prasena son of Akrūra 24.11;
see also Sudeva
Prasena son of Nighna 28.11–24, 29.10;
in battle 81.103, 87.47
Prasenajit 9.81–82
Pratardana 23.62–65
Prathita 7.13
Pratikshatra (pratikṣatra) 28.4
Pratīpa 15.10, 23.114
Pratishthāna (pratiṣṭhāna) 9.19
Prativaha 98.25
Prativāha 24.10, 28.40
Pratyūsha (pratyūṣa) 3.32, 37
Pravara 23.109
Pravīra son of Pūru 23.4
Pravīra son of Suraugha 23.47
Prayāga 21.9, 23.107
Prishadhra (pṛṣadhra) 9.2, 37
Prishata (pṛṣata) 15.35, 61–62, 23.102
Prishthaja (pṛṣṭhaja) 3.36
Prithā (pṛthā), see Kuntī
Prithu (pṛthu) son of Anenas 9.44–45
Prithu son of Chitraka 24.12, 28.43;
in battle 81.99, 87.47
Prithu son of Pāra 15.21–22
Prithu the seer 7.18
Prithu son of Vena 2.20–27, 4.19–26, 5.21–53, 6.1–15;
as first king 2.22, 3.110, 6.44;
and Brahmā 4.1, 5.32;
and rājasūya 2.23, 4.16;
devotion to 6.40–48
Prithuka gods (pṛthuka) 7.28
Prithukīrti (pṛthukīrti) 24.19, 21
Prithulāksha (pṛthulākṣa) 23.38
Prithurukma (pṛthurukma) 26.11–12
Prithushena (pṛthuṣena) 15.18
Prithushravas (pṛthuśravas) 26.5
Prithvī (pṛthvī) 6.40;
see Earth
Priyā 3.13, 7.40
Priyavrata 2.5
Pulaha 1.29, 7.7, 12.14;
descendants of 13.58
Pulastya 1.29, 7.7, 12.14;
descendants of 13.43, 31.126
Pulomā 3.72–74
Puloman 3.69–71, 31.76, 109.40
Pundarīka (puṇḍarīka) 10.76
Pundra (puṇḍra) 23.29
Punisher of Pāka, see Indra
Punjab (pañcanada) 81.42
Pura 15.21
Puranjaya (purañjaya) son of Bhajamāna 27.4
Puranjaya son of Srinjaya 23.17
Pūrnabhadra (pūrṇabhadra) 23.39
Purojava 3.35
Pūru son of Manu Chākshusha 2.17
Pūru son of Yayāti 22.4, 17, 31–35, 23.1–4;
descendants of 23.122, 126–27, 25.1, 114.16–18
Purujāti 23.95
Purukutsa 9.85–86, 13.63
Purumīdha (purumīḍha) 23.73
Purumitra father of Brihadishu 15.15
Purumitra ally of Jarāsandha 81.41
Purūravas 21.1–10;
birth of 9.14, 20.44;
kingdom of 9.20
Purutvat 26.26–27;
see Satvat
Pūshan (pūṣan) 3.50
Pushkala (puṣkala) 31.71
Pushkara (puṣkara) 31.71
Pushkarinī (puṣkariṇī) 2.15–16
Pushpadamshtra (puṣpadaṃṣṭra) 3.89
Pushpaka (puṣpaka) the chariot 34.17
Pushpaka Forest 93.18
Pushti (puṣṭi) 20.26
Put 5.24, 66.20
Pūtanā 45.6, 50.20–28;
as Kamsa’s tool 46.25–28;
killing of mentioned 31.144, 65.2;
by cowherds 51.32;
by Kamsa 65.26;
by Nārada 67.55, 96.31–32
Putra 7.9
Rādhā 15.26
Raghu son of Dilīpa 10.73–74;
descendant of, see Rāma son of Dasharatha
Raghu son of Nighna 10.72
Rāhu 31.77, 106.45;
see also Svarbhānu
Raibhya son of Damaghosha 87.21
Raibhya the god 7.23
Raivata the Manu, see Manu Raivata
Raivata (raivata, revata) son of Reva 9.24–35, 86.80
Raivata the Rudra 3.43
Raivataka 84.27, 93.14–17, 100.10, 109.35
Rājādhideva 28.1–2, 81.102, 87.47
Rājādhidevī 24.19
Rajata 103.14
Rajatanābha 6.31
Raji 21.11–36
Rāma son of Dasharatha 10.73–75, 31.110–42, 65.43;
and Lavana 31.127, 44.25–44;
and Sītā 31.117–19, 88.35
Rāma son of Jamadagni 23.155, 31.100–09, 42.39–41, 112.91;
and celestial missile 87.13
Rāma the seer 7.43
Rāma son of Vasudeva, see Baladeva
Ramana (ramaṇa) 3.34
Rambhā 118.25, 28
Rāshtrapāla (rāṣṭrapāla) 27.28
Rāshtrapālī (rāṣṭrapālī) 27.29
Rati 99.46
Rauchya (raucya) 7.5, 41
Raudrāshva (raudrāśva) 23.5–8, 12–14, 42
Rāvana (rāvaṇa) 31.122–26, 142, 44.33–40, 65.43;
and Kamsa 77.44–46;
spies of 97.8
Renu (reṇu) 23.87
Renukā (reṇukā) 23.87
Reva 9.23–24
Revatī 9.25–29, 86.80, 94.26;
sons of 25.4, 98.20
Ribhu gods (ṛbhu) 7.28
Richeyu (ṛceyu) 23.7, 42–43
Richīka (ṛcīka) 7.31, 23.85
Riksha (ṛkṣa) son of Ajamīdha 23.106–07, 113
Riksha son of Vidūratha 23.112–14
Rikshavanta (ṛkṣavanta) 99.28
Rikshavat (ṛkṣavat) 26.14, 109.35
Ripu 2.14–15
Ripunjaya (ripuṃjaya) 2.14
Rishikā (ṛṣikā) 117.29
Rishīkas (ṛṣīka) 89.18
Rishta (riṣṭa) 44.70
Rishyashringa (ṛśyaśṛṅga) 23.37
Rituparna (ṛtaparṇa) 10.69–70
Rohinī (rohiṇī) the star 48.5–7, 86.3
Rohinī wife of Vasudeva 25.1–3;
mother of Baladeva 45.38, 47.30, 48.2–7, 49.1–7, 30;
as Surabhi 45.36;
and Krishna 94.15, 96.8–9;
and women from Naraka 94.26;
son of, see Baladeva
Rohita son of Harishchandra 10.23
Rohita son of Krishna 98.7
Ruchi (ruci) 7.41
Ruchira (rucira) 15.17–18
Rudra, see Shiva
Rudrā 23.8–9
Rudras 3.42–44;
and Manu era 7.32;
and Brahmā 31.36;
and war over Tārakā 34.2;
and divine plan 43.4, 68;
and Krishna 63.5, 113.46, 58, 77;
and Kamsa’s advisors 65.18;
and Shonitapura 107.52
Rukmakavacha (rukmakavaca) 26.9–11
Rukmavatī 89.10–17
Rukmeshu (rukmeṣu) 26.11–12
Rukmin: at Mathurā 80.11, 81.40, 100, 82.2;
and Rukminī 87.8–16, 28, 88.1–33;
and Shubhāngī 89.1–5;
and Rukmavatī 89.10–14;
death scene 89.19–21, 27–52, 91.1
Rukminī (rukmiṇī) 87.12–17;
and Shishupāla 87.2, 17, 25;
abduction of 87.31–44, 88.1–2, 27–28, 97.3;
marriage of 88.34–36, 94.27, 98.3;
children of 24.29–31, 88.37–39, 98.4–6;
palace of 93.39;
and Pradyumna 94.19, 99.2, 17, 34–49, 109.29;
/> and Aniruddha 89.10–13;
and Rukmin 88.1–2, 88.27–28, 89.11, 42
Ruru 7.44
Rushadgu (ruṣadgu) 26.2–3
Sabhāksha (sabhākṣa) 28.35
Sabhānara 23.15–16
Sadashva (sadaśva) 15.21
Sādhyā 3.26–27
Sādhya gods: birth of 3.27;
and Vedas 1.35;
and Manu era 7.32;
and ancestors 13.53–54;
and Brahmā 31.36;
and Krishna 109.86, 113.45, 58;
and Vishnu 31.58;
and divine plan 43.5, 68;
and world of cows 62.28;
homes of 92.48;
defeated by Bāna 106.8
Sagara 10.25–62
Saha 7.17
Sahadeva son of Pāndu 62.93
Sahadeva son of Somadatta 23.101
Sahasrada 23.134–35
Sahasrājit 27.5
Sahasvat 10.77
Sahishnu (sahiṣṇu) 7.27
Saindhavāyanas 23.90
Sāketa 81.45
Sālankāyanas (sālaṅkāyana) 23.89
Samara 15.20–21
Sāmaveda 31.6
Sāmba 98.8, 100.1–3, 113.62–64;
wives of 28.40–41, 90.8–12, 98.24
Sambhūta (saṃbhūta) 9.86–87
Samgrāmajit (saṃgrāmajit) 98.10
Samhara (saṃhara) 31.72
Samhatāshva (saṃhatāśva) 9.80
Samhrāda (saṃhrāda) 3.60, 80, 31.71, 77
Sammata (saṃmata) 7.45
Sammatā (saṃmatā) 23.125–26
Samrāj 2.6
Samvarana (saṃvaraṇa) 23.107
Samvarta (saṃvarta) 23.126
Samvartaka (saṃvartaka) 81.59
Samyāti (saṃyāti) 22.1
Sanatkumāra 1.31–32, 31.16;
at Soma’s rājasūya 20.24;
and divine plan 43.68;
and Mārkandeya 11.7, 12.6–13.75, 14.5–15.2;
story shown by 13.71–14.8, 15.1–2, 66–67, 16.3;
and Kritvī 18.6
Sāndīpani (sāṃdīpani) 79.3–24, 97.27, 105.21;
in Dvārakā 86.76, 95.5, 9
Sanjnyā (saṃjñā) 8.1–40
Sankalpā (saṃkalpā) 3.26, 29
Sankarshana (saṃkarṣaṇa) 47.30–31, 48.6;
see Baladeva
Sānkritya (sāṃkṛtya) 23.88
Sannateyu (saṃnateyu) 23.6
Sannati (saṃnati) wife of Brahmadatta 18.22–23, 19.2–10, 23–27
Sannati son of Sārvabhauma 15.34–36
Sapatnajit 98.10
Saptabāhlya 23.115
Saramāna (saramāṇa) 3.78
Sārana (sāraṇa) 87.45
Sārvabhauma 15.33
Sarvadamana 23.48
Sarvajit 3.68
Sarvakarman 10.71
Sarvartuka 93.17, 107.2
Satrājit 28.11, 81.103;
and Syamantaka 28.30, 29.1–3, 10, 30;
wives and children of 28.32–34, 88.42
Satvat 27.1;
see Purutvat
Sātvatas (sātvat, sātvata) 26.27, 28.30, 29.38, 113.63–64;
Baladeva as 81.62;
Krishna as 113.52
Satya gods 7.19
Satyā, see Gāndhārī wife of Krishna, Nāgnajitī
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