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पञ्चेन्द्रोपाख्यान (paJcendropAkhyAna)

 
Monier Williams Cologne
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पञ्चेन्°द्रोपाख्यान
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Aufrecht Catalogus Catalogorum
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पञ्चेन्द्रोपाख्यान (?) kāvya. Oppert 2880.
Mahabharata
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[Pañcendropākhyāna(ṃ)] (“episode relating to the five Indras”). § 238 (cf. Vaivāhikap.): Vyāsa said to Drupada: In days of yore, when the gods were celebrating a great sacrifice in the forest of Naimisha, Yama, holding the office of śamitṛ, did not slay the creatures, so that their numbers increased very greatly. Soma, Śakra, Varuṇa, Kubera, the Sādhyas, the Rudras, the Vasus, the Aśvins, etc., complained thereof to Prajāpati, who comforted them, saying that when the sacrifice was over Yama would again sweep away the inhabitants of the earth. The gods then returned to the place of the sacrifice, and saw a golden lotus carried along the Bhāgīrathī. Indra proceeded to the spot where the Gaṅgā issues, and saw a beautiful woman (it was Śrī), whose tears were being transformed into golden lotuses. She led him to Mahādeva, who as a handsome youth was seated with a young lady on a throne on one of the peaks of the Himavat, playing dice. When Indra spoke haughtily of himself, Mahadeva caused Śrī to paralyse him and lead him into a hole, where four Indras of old were confined in order to be reborn in the world of men, there to slay a large number of men, and then to regain the region of Indra. Their fathers should be Dharma, Vāyu, Maghavat, and the Aśvins, Indra creating a person from himself to be the fifth among them. Their names were Viśvabhuj, Bhūtadhāman, Śibi, Śānti, and Tejasvin. The weeping woman (Śrī) was appointed to be their common wife in the world of men. Nārāyaṇa, to whom Īśāna (i.e. Śiva) and the five Indras repaired, approved of everything. The five Indras were reborn as the Pāṇḍavas, and Śrī as Draupadī. A white hair of Nārāyaṇa's became Baladeva, and a black Kṛshṇa, after having entered the wombs of Devakī and Rohiṇī. Having related this to Drupada, Vyāsa granted him celestial sight, so that he beheld the Pāṇḍavas endued with their former bodies.--§ 239: Vyāsa then related to Drupada the story of the damsel (= Śrī = Kṛshṇā) whom Śaṅkara, i.e. Śiva, appointed to be in a future birth the wife of five husbands (see § 220) (I, 197).