Hansa - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.67.3504	That son of Arishta who was known by the name of Hansa, was born in the Kuru race and became the monarch of the Gandharvas.
Mbh.2.14.587	There are two others, Hansa and Dimvaka, of great energy and great soul, who have sought the shelter of the mighty Jarasandha.
Mbh.2.14.610	They are called Hansa and Dimvaka who are both incapable of being slain by weapons.
Mbh.2.14.613	There lived, O monarch, a king of the name of Hansa, who was slain by Rama Valadeva after a battle of eighteen days.
Mbh.2.14.614	But, O Bharata, hearing people say that Hansa had been killed, Dimvaka, O king, thought that he could not live without Hansa.
Mbh.2.14.616	Afterwards when Hansa, the subjugator of hostile heroes, heard that Dimvaka, had killed himself, he went to the Yamuna and jumped into its waters.
Mbh.2.14.617	Then, O bull of the Bharata race, king Jarasandha, hearing that both Hansa and Dimvaka had been killed, returned to his kingdom with an empty heart.
Mbh.2.14.619	Then the widow of Hansa and the daughter of Jarasandha, that handsome woman with eyes like lotus-petals, grieved at the death of her lord, went unto her father, and repeatedly urged, O Monarch, the king of Magadha, saying, O slayer of all foes, kill thou the slayer of my husband,
Mbh.2.19.856	Jarasandha had two supporters called Hansa and Dimvaka, both of whom were incapable of being slain by weapons.
Mbh.2.20.861	SECTION XX Jarasandhta-badha Parva Krishna said, both Hansa and Dimvaka have fallen; Kansa also with all his followers has been slain.
Mbh.2.22.1024	These two, O king, were formerly called by everybody in the world of men by the respectful appellations of Hansa and Dimvaka.
Mbh.3.3.241	Thou art Hansa, thou art Savitri, thou art Bhanu, Ansumalin, and Vrishakapi.
Mbh.12.338.21696	who is all the Ritwijas, who is the origin of all sacrifices viz, the Vedas, who is fire, who is the very heart of all sacrifices viz, the mantras and hymns uttered in them, who is he that is hymned in sacrifices, who takes those shares of the sacrificial offerings that are presented to him, who is the embodiment of the five sacrifices, who is the maker of the five sections or divisions of time viz, day, night, month, season and year, who is incapable of being understood except by those scriptures that are called Pancharatra, who never shrinks from anything, who is unvanquished, who is only Mind without a physical frame, who is known only by name, who is the Lord of Brahman himself, who has completed all the vows and observances mentioned in the Vedas who is the Hansa bearer of the triple stick, who is the Parama-hansa divested of stick, who is the foremost of all sacrifices, who is Sankhya-yoga, who is the embodiment of the Sankhya philosophy, who dwells in all Jivas, who lives in every heart, who resides in every sense, who floats on the ocean-water, who lives in the Vedas, who lies on the lotus the image of the egg whence the universe has sprung, who is the Lord of the universe, and whose troops go everywhere for protecting his worshippers.

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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