Kausika - AncientVoice

Mbh.1.71.3787	Saying this and seeing that all she had spoken about had been duly provided, Menaka went to the retreat of the great Kausika
Mbh.2.4.117	Upon the seats in that palace sat, along with the Pandavas, Rishis and kings that came from various countries, viz, Asita and Devala, Satya, Sarpamali and Mahasira; Arvavasu, Sumitra, Maitreya, Sunaka and Vali; Vaka, Dalvya, Sthulasira, Krishna-Dwaipayana, and Suka Sumanta, Jaimini, Paila, and the disciples of Vyasa, viz, ourselves; Tittiri, Yajanavalkya, and Lomaharshana with his son; Apsuhomya, Dhaumya, Animandavya; and Kausika; Damoshnisha and Traivali, Parnada, and Varayanuka, Maunjayana, Vayubhaksha, Parasarya, and Sarika; Valivaka, Silivaka, Satyapala, and Krita-srama; Jatukarna, and Sikhavat.
Mbh.2.19.850	King Jarasandha, also, as uttered by Kausika, having received those numerous boons ruled his kingdom like a father.
Mbh.2.22.1023	Then, O bull of the Bharata race, the king, on the eve of battle, thought of his two generals Kausika and Chitrasena.
Mbh.3.9.446	But I am aggrieved on account of my son, and it is therefore, O Kausika, that I weep!
Mbh.3.84.4556	Repairing then to the river Kausika that cleanseth from even great sins, one should bathe in it.
Mbh.3.84.4570	Then should one, O king, go to the lake of the Muni Kausika, where Kusika's son, Viswamitra, obtained high success.
Mbh.3.84.4572	There, O hero, at Kausika, should one reside for a month, O bull of the Bharata race!
Mbh.3.135.6905	O Kausika, by the force of my asceticism.
Mbh.3.156.7844	Thereupon that son of Pandu, Sahadeva, extricated himself with exertion, and by force snatched the sword named Kausika from the grasp of the enemy and began to call Bhimasena, taking the direction in which that mighty one had gone.
Mbh.3.205.10494	SECTION CCV Markandeya said, There was, O Bharata, a virtuous ascetic of the name of Kausika and endued with wealth of asceticism and devoted to the study of the Vedas, he was a very superior Brahmana and that best of Brahmanas studied all the Vedas with the Angas and the Upanishadas and one day he was reciting the Vedas at the foot of a tree and at that time there sat on the top of that tree a female crane and that she-crane happened at that time to befoul the Brahmana's body and beholding that crane the Brahmana became very angry and thought of doing her an injury and as the Brahmana cast his angry glances upon the crane and thought also of doing her an injury, she fell down on the ground and beholding the crane thus fallen from the tree and insensible in death, the Brahmana was much moved by pity and the regenerate one began to lament for the dead crane saying, Alas, I have done a bad deed, urged by anger and malice'
Mbh.3.205.10561	Markandeya continued, Dismissed by her, Kausika, that best of regenerate ones, left her house, and, reproaching himself, returned to his own abode
Mbh.3.206.10562	SECTION CCVI Markandeya said, Continually reflecting upon that wonderful discourse of the woman, Kausika began to reproach himself and looked very much like a guilty person and meditating on the subtle ways of morality and virtue, he said to himself, I should accept with reverence what the lady hath said and should, therefore, repair to Mithila.
Mbh.3.206.10566	Kausika thus reflecting with reverence upon all she had said, set out for Mithila, filled with curiosity.
Mbh.3.206.10576	And repairing to the place indicated by those regenerate ones, the Brahmana beheld the fowler seated in a butcher's yard and the ascetic fowler was then selling venison and buffalo meat and in consequence of the large concourse of buyers gathered round that fowler, Kausika stood at a distance.
Mbh.5.106.4913	Thus assuming, O Bharata, the form of the one of the seven Rishis, and feigning himself hungry and desirous of eating, he came, O king, to the hermitage of Kausika.
Mbh.5.106.4922	And after a hundred years had passed away, Dharma, again assuming the form of Vasishtha, came to Kausika from desire of eating.
Mbh.7.46.2208	Displaying great strength and great activity, and describing the tracks called Kausika and others, the son of Arjuna fiercely coursed through the sky, like the prince of winged creatures viz, Garuda.
Mbh.7.189.10457	Having practised them well, he also showed the evolutions called Bharata, Kausika Satwata, as he careened in that battle for compassing the destruction of Drona, Beholding those beautiful evolutions of Dhrishtadyumna, as he careered on the field, sword and shield in hand, all the warriors, as also the celestials assembled there, were filled with wonder.
Mbh.8.69.4023	What wonder, again, in this that a foolish and ignorant person, from even the desire of winning merit, earns great sin like Kausika living among the rivers
Mbh.8.69.4024	Arjuna said, Tell me, O holy one, this story that I may understand it, viz, this illustration about Valaka and about Kausika living among rivers
Mbh.8.69.4037	There was an ascetic of the name of Kausika without much knowledge of the scriptures.
Mbh.8.69.4041	At that time certain persons, from fear of robbers, entered that wood where Kausika dwelt.
Mbh.8.69.4043	Approaching Kausika then, that speaker of truth, they asked him saying, O holy one, by which path have a multitude of men gone a little while before?
Mbh.8.69.4046	Thus adjured, Kausika told them the truth, saying, Those men have entered this wood crowded with many trees and creepers and plants.
Mbh.8.69.4047	Even thus, O Partha, did Kausika give them the information.
Mbh.8.69.4049	In consequence of that great sin consisting in the words spoken, Kausika, ignorant of the subtilities of morality, fell into a grievous hell, even as a foolish man, of little knowledge, and unacquainted with the distinctions of morality, falleth into painful hell by not having asked persons of age for the solution of his doubts.
Mbh.9.38.2809	King Kausika became a great ascetic.
Mbh.9.55.3989	Adopting the manoeuvre called Kausika, and repeatedly jumping up, Duryodhana, properly marking the descent of Bhima's mace, baffled the latter.
Mbh.12.47.2294	Surrounded by Vyasa conversant with the Vedas by the celestial Rishi Narada, by Devasthana, by Asmaka Sumantu, by Jaimini, by the high-souled Paila, by Sandilya, by Devarata, by Maitreya of great intelligence, by Asita and Vasishtha and the high-souled Kausika, by Harita and Lomasa and Atri's son of great intelligence, by Vrihaspati and Sukra and the great sage Chyavana, by Sanatkumara and Kapila and Valmiki and Tumvuru and Kuru, by Maudgalya and Rama of Bhrigu's race, and the great sage Trinavindu, by Pippalada and Vayu and Samvarta and Pulaha and Katha, by Kasyapa and Pulastya and Kratu and Daksha and Parasara, by Marichi and Angiras and Kasmya and Gautama and the sage Galava, by Dhaumya and Vibhanda and Mandavya and Dhaumra and Krishnanubhautika, by Uluka, that foremost of Brahmanas and the great sage Markandeya, by Bhaskari and Purana and Krishna and Suta, that foremost of virtuous persons, surrounded by these and many other highly-blessed sages of great souls and possessed of faith and self-restraint and tranquillity of mind, the Kuru hero looked like the Moon in the midst of the planets and the stars.
Mbh.12.338.21730	Thou art the two Rishis Prachina-garbha and Kausika.
Mbh.12.342.22399	Through that curse of Kausika Indra lost, also, his own testicles, which loss was afterwards through the kindness of the other deities made up by the substitution of the testicles of a ram.
Mbh.13.3.258	Viswamitra had a large river, by name Kausika, that was frequented by celestial Rishis.
Mbh.13.14.1270	Failing in this, O Kausika, I would rather prefer dissolution itself.
Mbh.13.73.6798	That person, who rescues kine and Brahmanas from danger in the wilderness, O Kausika, becomes himself rescued from every kind of calamity.

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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