Adhiratha - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.139.7404	SECTION CXXXIX Sambhava Parva continued Vaisampayana said, After this, with his sheet loosely hanging down, Adhiratha entered the lists, perspiring and trembling, and supporting himself on a staff.
Mbh.3.307.15036	SECTION CCCVII Vaisampayana said, And it came to pass that at this time a Suta named Adhiratha, who was a friend of Dhritarashtra, came to the river Ganga, accompanied by his wife.
Mbh.3.307.15042	And she then related all unto Adhiratha of the charioteer caste.
Mbh.3.307.15043	And hearing this Adhiratha took away the box from the water-side, and opened it by means of instruments.
Mbh.3.307.15047	And taking the infant on his lap, Adhiratha said unto his wife, Ever since I was born, O timid lady, I had never seen such a wonder.
Mbh.3.307.15053	And after Karna's adoption, Adhiratha had other sons begotten by himself.
Mbh.3.307.15056	And Pritha learnt through spies that her own son clad in celestial mail was growing up amongst the Angas as the eldest son of a charioteer Adhiratha.
Mbh.3.307.15057	And seeing that in process of time his son had grown up, Adhiratha sent him to the city named after the elephant.
Mbh.5.141.6297	The Suta, Adhiratha, as soon as he beheld me, took me to his home, and from her affection for me, Radha's breasts were filled with milk that very day, and she, O Madhava, cleansed my urine and evacuations.
Mbh.5.141.6299	So also Adhiratha of the Suta class regardeth me as a son, and I too, from affection, always regard him as my father.
Mbh.5.141.6300	O Madhava, that Adhiratha, O Janardana, from paternal affection caused all the rites of infancy to be performed on my person, according to the rules prescribed in the scriptures.
Mbh.5.141.6301	It is that Adhiratha, again, who caused the name Vasusena to be bestowed upon me by the Brahmanas.
Mbh.5.145.6483	SECTION CXLV Karna said, I am Karna, son of Radha and Adhiratha.
Mbh.5.145.6487	Nor is Adhiratha thy father.
Mbh.6.124.6873	Nor is Adhiratha thy father!
Mbh.7.2.107	Of beautiful person, and endued with the splendour of fire, that great bowman and mighty car-warrior, viz, the son of Adhiratha, then mounted on his own beautiful car possessed of the effulgence of fire, and shone like the lord of the celestials himself riding on his celestial car
Mbh.7.128.6402	The mighty son of Adhiratha, his face beautiful as a full-blown lotus, lighted up with a smile, challenged Bhimasena to battle, as the latter was proceeding.
Mbh.7.129.6458	Endued with great strength and mighty arms, that mighty car-warrior, the son of Adhiratha, then pierced Bhima with nine keen arrows.
Mbh.7.131.6545	Beholding that foremost of men, viz, the son of Adhiratha, deprived of his car, Duryodhana, O monarch, said unto his brother Durmukha, There, O Durmukha, the son of Radha hath been deprived of his car by Bhimasena.
Mbh.7.131.6550	And in that moment, O king, with nine straight arrows of keen points, Bhima despatched Durmukha to Yama's abode, Upon Durmukha's slaughter, the son of Adhiratha mounted upon the car of that prince and looked resplendent, O king, like the blazing sun.
Mbh.7.132.6564	Fie on exertion which is useless, inasmuch as the son of Adhiratha, though fighting resolutely, could not vanquish the son of Pandu.
Mbh.7.136.6798	The son of Adhiratha then, with ten shafts, cut off, as it coursed towards him with the effulgence of a large meteor, the gold-decked dart thus hurled by Bhima
Mbh.7.144.7478	The mighty car-warrior, Partha, beholding the son of Radha advancing, smilingly addressed the son of Devaki and said, Yonder cometh the son of Adhiratha against the car of Satyaki.
Mbh.7.164.8884	The son of Madri, then, quickly jumping down from his excellent car, and blazing with wrath upon beholding Karna stationed before him, took up a car-wheel and hurled it at the son of Adhiratha.
Mbh.7.173.9400	Possessed of the splendour of the morning sun, and decked with jewels and gems, Bhimasena's son hurled that wheel at the son of Adhiratha, desirous of making an end of the latter.
Mbh.8.8.236	And the king said, O Sanjaya, the heroic son of Adhiratha was endued with the prowess of the lion or the elephant!
Mbh.8.9.276	Without doubt, the son of Adhiratha, afflicted with arrows, fell down from his car, like a mountain-peak riven by the fall of thunder!
Mbh.8.9.321	The person could not be seen competent to stay before the son of Adhiratha, while the latter, putting on his fences, used to touch the bowstring!
Mbh.8.21.891	Large numbers of those foes thus employed in shouting and shooting weapons, the heroic son of Adhiratha crushed with his arrows.
Mbh.8.24.1008	The son of Adhiratha then, smiling the while, sped arrowy lines, O sire, in hundreds and thousands, in that battle.
Mbh.8.36.1914	Duryodhana said these words, O son of Adhiratha, O hero, do thou achieve that feat difficult of accomplishment which Drona and Bhishma have not achieved in the very sight of all the bowmen.
Mbh.8.42.2248	SECTION Sanjaya said, The high-souled son of Adhiratha, having listened unconvinced to these words of the ruler of the Madras, addressed Shalya, saying, That which Vasudeva and Arjuna are is well-known to me.
Mbh.8.49.2737	The son of Adhiratha then, laughing and shaking his bow inflicted a cutting wound on the king's body with a broad-headed arrow, and again pierced him with sixty arrows and then uttered a loud shout.
Mbh.8.49.2748	His armour cut off with those arrows, the son of Pritha, covered with blood, wrathfully hurled at the son of Adhiratha a dart made wholly of iron.
Mbh.8.56.3186	The son of Adhiratha, of great energy, filled with rage, began from their front to strike those Pancalas, with the keen points of his shafts, singling out their leaders, viz, Vyaghraketu and Susharma and Citra and Ugrayudha and Jaya and Sukla and Rochamana and the invincible Singhasena.
Mbh.8.56.3201	Beholding the prowess of Karna, O king, I thought that a single Pancala even would not, in that battle, escape from the son of Adhiratha.
Mbh.8.56.3205	Like Garuda falling upon a large number of snakes, the son of Adhiratha, singlehanded, fell upon all those Cedis and Pancalas and Pandavas in that encounter.
Mbh.8.78.4722	Beholding the army broken by Kunti's son of immeasurable energy, what did Karna, the son of Adhiratha and Radha, do in that battle?
Mbh.8.78.4739	The son of Adhiratha, then, of great might laughing in scorn, and drawing his excellent bow let off many keen shafts, afflicting his foes.
Mbh.8.82.5010	The high-souled son of Adhiratha then pierced Sutasoma with a very keen shaft.
Mbh.8.82.5025	Shooting his shafts with that large and extended bow of his that resembled the bow of Sakra himself, the son of Adhiratha looked resplendent like the sun, with his multitude of blazing rays, within his corona.
Mbh.8.89.5471	Others among the spectators, filled with joy and uttering leonine shouts, raised their arms, waving their fingers or the pieces of cloth they held, when Arjuna rushed against the son of Adhiratha, from desire of slaughter, like one infuriated elephant rushing against another.
Mbh.8.89.5585	The son of Adhiratha then pierced Dhananjaya who resembled the chief of the celestials himself in energy and might with three arrows, and he caused five other blazing arrows resembling five snakes to penetrate the body of Krishna.
Mbh.8.90.5605	The encounter then, O king, that took place between Arjuna and the son of Adhiratha, became a very dreadful one.
Mbh.8.95.6079	Surrounded by a gandharvas, Shakuni, beholding the son of Adhiratha slain, proceeded quickly towards the encampment.

Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
Research data published for the interest of people researching on Mahabharata.
Suggestions are welcome: email:moc.liamg|rnhtijij#moc.liamg|rnhtijij

Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice.

Share:-

adhiratha

AncientVoice

Eternal Voices from the past