Gandhamadana
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Mahabharata: 18 Parvas
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Mbh.1.2.389 | Then the story of Yavakrita, and then that of the great Raivya: then the departure of the Pandavas for Gandhamadana and their abode in the asylum called Narayana; then Bhimasena's journey to Gandhamadana at the request of Draupadi in search of the sweet-scented flower. |
Mbh.1.2.391 | Then is narrated the ascent on the hills of Kailasa by Bhimasena, his terrific battle with the mighty Yakshas headed by Hanuman; then the meeting of the Pandavas with Vaisravana Kuvera, and the meeting with Arjuna after he had obtained for the purpose of Yudhishthira many celestial weapons; then Arjuna's terrible encounter with the Nivatakavachas dwelling in Hiranyaparva, and also with the Paulomas, and the Kalakeyas; their destruction at the hands of Arjuna; the commencement of the display of the celestial weapons by Arjuna before Yudhishthira, the prevention of the same by Narada; the descent of the Pandavas from Gandhamadana; the seizure of Bhima in the forest by a mighty serpent huge as the mountain; his release from the coils of the snake, upon Yudhishthira's answering certain questions; the return of the Pandavas to the Kamyaka woods. |
Mbh.1.30.1745 | At last he went to that foremost of mountains called Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.1.36.1976 | He practised these ascetic devotions, repairing to Gandhamadana, Vadri, Gokarna, the woods of Pushkara, and the foot of Himavat. |
Mbh.1.119.6415 | He next went to Chaitraratha, and then crossed the Kalakuta, and finally, crossing the Himavat, he arrived at Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.2.10.405 | And Kinnaras by hundreds and innumerable kings with Bhagadatta as their chief, and Druma, the chief of the Kimpurushas, and Mahendra, the chief of the Rakshasas, and Gandhamadana accompanied by many Yakshas and Gandharvas and many Rakshasas wait upon the lord of treasures. |
Mbh.2.10.407 | The mountains of Himavat, Paripatra, Vindhya, Kailasa, Mandara, Malaya, Durdura, Mahendra, Gandhamadana, Indrakila, Sunava, and Eastern and the Western hills, these and many other mountains, in their personified forms, with Meru standing before all, wait upon and worship the illustrious lord of treasures. |
Mbh.3.12.603 | Arjuna said, In days of old, thou, O Krishna, hadst wandered on the Gandhamadana mountains for ten thousand years as a Muni having his home where evening fell! |
Mbh.3.37.1956 | And having crossed the Himavat, as also the Gandhamadana, he passed over many uneven and dangerous spots, walking night and day without fatigue. |
Mbh.3.140.7123 | Lomasa said, Access to the mountain, Gandhamadana, is only to be obtained by dint of asceticism. |
Mbh.3.140.7161 | O mighty-armed one, with the object of beholding that war-like tiger among men, shall we repair to the Gandhamadana mountain, where lies the hermitage of Nara and Narayana at the site of the celebrated jujube tree, and which is inhabited by the Yakshas. |
Mbh.3.140.7168 | Therefore, regulating our fare, and restraining our senses, we shall go to the Gandhamadana, desirous of seeing Dhananjaya |
Mbh.3.142.7254 | SECTION CXLII Vaisampayana said, O king, then those foremost of bowmen, of immeasurable prowess, holding bows stringed at full stretch and equipped with quivers and arrows and wearing finger-caps made of the guana-skin, and with their swords on, proceeded with Panchali towards the Gandhamadana, taking with them the best of Brahmanas. |
Mbh.3.142.7274 | And then the heroes started for the mountain Gandhamadana |
Mbh.3.144.7312 | And, O possessor of dreadful prowess, depending on the strength of thy arms, I shall reach the Gandhamadana, unhurt, together with Panchala's daughter |
Mbh.3.145.7370 | And that one of matchless prowess proceeded, fixing his look at the slopes of the Gandhamadana, beautiful with flowers of every season, and revolving various thoughts in his mind and with his ears, eyes and mind rivetted to the spots resounding with the notes of male kokilas and ringing with the hum of black bees. |
Mbh.3.145.7372 | And he was fanned by the fresh breeze of the Gandhamadana bearing the perfumes of various blossoms and cooling like unto a father's touch. |
Mbh.3.145.7385 | And being engaged in fulfilling the desire of his love, the youthful son of Pandu, stalwart and of splendour like unto the hue of gold; and having a body strong as a lion; and treading like a mad elephant; and possessing the force of a mad elephant; and having coppery eyes like unto those of a mad elephant; and capable of checking a mad elephant began to range the romantic sides of the Gandhamadana with his beautiful eyes uplifted; and displaying as it were a novel type of beauty. |
Mbh.3.145.7387 | Intent upon gratifying Draupadi exiled unto the woods, as he was ranging the beautiful Gandhamadana, he remembered the many and various woes caused by Duryodhana. |
Mbh.3.145.7407 | And then the long-armed one saw on the slopes of the Gandhamadana a beautiful plantain tree spreading over many a yojana. |
Mbh.3.151.7706 | SECTION CLI Vaisampayana said, When that foremost of monkeys had gone away, Bhima, the best of strong men, began to range the huge Gandhamadana along that path. |
Mbh.3.154.7815 | And with the knowledge of Kuvera, those foremost of Kurus for a short time dwelt pleasantly at that spot on the slopes of the Gandhamadana, expecting Arjuna |
Mbh.3.157.7934 | And beholding on the way the mountain Mainaka and the base of the Gandhamadana and that rocky mass Sweta and many a crystal rivulet higher and higher up the mountain, he reached on the seventeenth day the sacred slopes of the Himalayas. |
Mbh.3.157.7935 | And, O king, not far from the Gandhamadana, Pandu's son beheld on the sacred slopes of the Himavan covered with various trees and creepers the holy hermitage of Vrishaparva surrounded by blossoming trees growing near the cascades. |
Mbh.3.157.7951 | And then with their down standing erect, they saw the mountain Gandhamadana, the abode of Kimpurushas, frequented by Siddhas and Charanas and ranged by Vidyadharis and Kinnaris and inhabited by herds of elephants and thronged with lions and tigers and resounding with the roars of Sarabhas and attended by various beasts. |
Mbh.3.157.7952 | And the war-like sons of Pandu gradually entered into the forest of the Gandhamadana, like unto the Nandana gardens, delightful to the mind and heart and worthy of being inhabited and having beautiful groves. |
Mbh.3.157.7954 | And they saw various trees bending under the weight of fruits in all seasons, and ever bright with flowers, such as mangoes and hog-plums and bhavyas and pomegranates, citrons and jacks and lakuchas and plantains and aquatic reeds and parvatas and champakas and lovely kadamvas and vilwas, wood-apples and rose-apples and kasmaris and jujbes and figs and glomerous figs and banians and aswatthas and khirikas and bhall atakas and amalkas and bibhitakas and ingudas and karamardas and tindukas of large fruits, these and many others on the slopes of the Gandhamadana, clustered with sweet and nectarine fruits. |
Mbh.3.157.7971 | O Bhima, beautiful is this forest of the Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.3.157.7973 | On these slopes of the Gandhamadana, all the trees are of sleek foliage and fruit. |
Mbh.3.157.7979 | O Partha, on these slopes of the Gandhamadana, yon beautiful blossoming trees, being embraced by creepers with blossoms at their tops, look lovely. |
Mbh.3.158.8032 | And during the Parvas, as Tumburu entertaineth the Lord of treasures, the sweet notes of his song are heard all over the Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.3.159.8037 | SECTION CLIX Janamejaya said, How long did my great grandsires, the highsouled sons of Pandu of matchless prowess, dwell in the Gandhamadana mountain? |
Mbh.3.160.8138 | And coursing through the firmament they the steeds arrived at the Gandhamadana, as if drawing forward the sky with their fleetness. |
Mbh.3.163.8271 | And Arjuna, having dwelt for five years in the abode of him of a thousand eyes, and having from that lord of celestials obtained all the celestial weapons, such as those of Agni, of Varuna, of Soma, of Vayu, of Vishnu, of Indra, of Pasupati, of Brahma, of Parameshthi, of Prajapati, of Yama, of Dhata, of Savita, of Tvashta, and of Vaisravana; and having bowed down to and gone round him of a hundred sacrifices, and taken his Indra's permission, cheerfully came to the Gandhamadana |
Mbh.3.173.8693 | Then have I come and seen thee surrounded by our brothers on the summit of this lower range of the Gandhamadana' |
Mbh.3.187.9410 | And, O king, I saw there the mountain Gandhamadana, and, O tiger among men, also Mandara and the huge mountains of Nila. |
Mbh.3.242.12109 | And, the dwellers of the Gandhamadana, beholding the Pandavas looking like blazing guardians of the world provoked to ire, stood arrayed in order of battle. |
Mbh.3.273.13275 | And the warriors, learned in the Vedas and diligent in ceremonial rites, all lived with their father in the Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.3.273.13304 | That adorable Being, leaving Lanka and followed by Gandharvas, Yakshas, Rakshas, and Kinnaras, went to live on mount Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.3.281.13765 | And the renowned Gandhamadana, dwelling on the mountains of the same name, collected a hundred thousand crores of monkeys. |
Mbh.4.71.2750 | It was he who slew the furious Rakshasas on the mountains of Gandhamadana, and procured for Krishna celestial flowers of great fragrance. |
Mbh.5.50.2863 | He, who for the gratification of Krishna slew the Krodhavasas, having penetrated the rugged and terrible mountains of Gandhamadana, he to whose arms hath been imparted the might of ten thousand elephants; with that Bhimasena as their ally the Pandavas will fight against you. |
Mbh.5.64.3393 | That northern mountain, Gandhamadana, looked like a grove. |
Mbh.5.96.4547 | It is that illustrious pair, Nara and Narayana, who are now practising the severest of penances in some hidden region of the mountains of Gandhamadana' |
Mbh.5.96.4548 | Hearing those words of the Brahmanas, that king speedily mustered his large army consisting of six kinds of forces and unable to bear their reputation, marched to the spot where those unvanquished ascetics were, and arrived at the rugged and frightful mountains of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.5.159.7023 | And Rukmi was a disciple of that lion among the Kimpurushas who was known by the name of Drona, having his abode on the mountains of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.5.161.7220 | Like a fool, who, without having ascended the Gandhamadana mountains, boasts of his would-be feat, thou, O son of Kunti, art indulging in a similar bragging, be a man! |
Mbh.5.162.7285 | Like a fool that boasteth of his intention to ascend the mountains of Gandhamadana, thou, O son of Kunti, art indulging in a vain boast. |
Mbh.6.6.329 | Beyond Malyavat northwards is the mountain called Gandhamadana |
Mbh.6.6.330 | Between these two viz, Malyavat and Gandhamadana is a globular mountain called Meru made of gold. |
Mbh.6.6.360 | On the summits of Gandhamadana, Kuvera the lord of the Guhyakas, with many Rakshasas and accompanied by tribes of Apsaras, passeth his time in joy. |
Mbh.6.6.361 | Besides Gandhamadana there are many smaller mountains and hills. |
Mbh.6.65.3574 | In days of yore, all the celestials and the Rishis, united together, waited reverentially on the Grandsire upon the mountains of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.6.93.4888 | These, O king, fell with great force on that bull among Rakshasas, like angry snakes of virulent poison on the breast of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.7.122.5986 | Shooting many keen shafts, he greatly afflicted the preceptor, like a mighty mass of clouds pouring torrents of rain on the mountain of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.7.136.6817 | Desirous of shelter, that subjugator of hostile cities viz, the son of Pritha, uplifting an elephant that had been slain by Dhananjaya with his shafts, waited there, like Hanumat uplifting the peak of Gandhamadana |
Mbh.7.199.11422 | And Hara made the two mountains, viz, Gandhamadana and Vindhya, the two poles of his car. |
Mbh.8.45.2468 | The Guhyakas, O great king, protect the mountains of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.9.11.693 | Resembling the very bludgeon of Yama, impending upon the head of the foe like kala-ratri Death Night, exceedingly destructive of the lives of elephants and steeds and human beings, twined round with cloth of gold, looking like a blazing meteor, equipped with a sling, fierce as a she-snake, hard as thunder, and made wholly of iron, smeared with sandal-paste and other unguents like a desirable lady, smutted with marrow and fat and blood, resembling the very tongue of Yama, producing shrill sounds in consequence of the bells attached to it, like unto the thunder of Indra, resembling in shape a snake of virulent poison just freed from its slough, drenched with the juicy secretions of elephants, inspiring hostile troops with terror and friendly troops with joy, celebrated in the world of men, and capable of riving mountain summits, that mace, with which the mighty son of Kunti had in Kailasa challenged the enraged Lord of Alaka, the friend of Maheshvara, that weapon with which Bhima, though resisted by many, had in wrath slain a large number of proud Guhyakas endued with powers of illusion on the breasts of Gandhamadana for the sake of procuring Mandara flowers for doing what was agreeable to Draupadi, uplifting that mace which was rich with diamonds and jewels and gems and possessed of eight sides and celebrated as Indra's thunder, the mighty-armed son of Pandu now rushed against Shalya. |
Mbh.12.49.2608 | Having gratified Mahadeva on the mountains of Gandhamadana, he begged weapons of that great god, especially the axe of fierce energy in his hands. |
Mbh.12.334.21349 | Without doubt, with his heart devoted to them, and impelled by a longing desire to be-hold them, Narada dropped down on Gandhamadana from a summit of the high mountains of Meru and wandered over all the world. |
Mbh.12.342.22669 | Riding on the vehicle that helps towards the performance of scriptural and other duties, I practised, in those two forms, undying austerities on the breast of Gandhamadana At that time the great sacrifice of Daksha took place. |
Mbh.12.343.22769 | From the mountains of Meru he then proceeded towards Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.13.21.3196 | He said, Commanded by thee I proceeded to the mountains of Gandhamadana. |
Mbh.13.25.3430 | Repairing to Indratoya in the vicinity of the mountains of Gandhamadana and next to Karatoya in the country called Kuranga, one should observe a fast for three days and then bathe in those sacred waters with a concentrated heart and pure body. |
Mbh.13.147.12335 | Those millions of Rishis, thus created by that great Ordainer are no residing on the mountains of Gandhamadana, headed by Sanatkumara and engaged in the observance of penances. |
Mbh.13.165.13694 | Meru, Mahendra, Malaya, Sweta endued with silver, Sringavat, Mandara, Nila, Nishada, Dardurna, Chitrakuta, Anjanabha, the Gandhamadana mountains; the sacred Somagiri, the various other mountains, the cardinal points of the compass, the subsidiary points, the Earth, all the trees, the Viswedevas, the Firmament, the Constellations, the Planets, and the deities, let these all, named and unnamed, rescue and cleanse us! |
Jijith Nadumuri Ravi
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Reference:- Mahabharata of Krishna Dwaipayana Vyasa, translated to English by Kisari Mohan Ganguli; Source of Plain Text: www.sacred-texts.com; Wikified at AncientVoice. |
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