Shloka 19
Varuṇābhiṣeka–Agni-anveṣaṇa–Kaubera-tīrtha
Varuṇa’s Consecration; Search for Agni; Kaubera Sacred Site
पृथुवस्त्रा मधुलिका मधुकुम्भा तथैव च | पक्षालिका मत्कुलिका जरायुर्जर्जरानना
pṛthuvastrā madhulikā madhukumbhā tathaiva ca | pakṣālikā matkulikā jarāyur jarjarānanā ||
ವೈಶಂಪಾಯನನು ಹೇಳಿದನು—ಪೃಥುವಸ್ತ್ರಾ, ಮಧುಲಿಕಾ, ಮಧುಕುಂಬಾ; ಹಾಗೆಯೇ ಪಕ್ಷಾಲಿಕಾ, ಮತ್ಕುಲಿಕಾ, ಜರಾಯು, ಜರ್ಜರಾನನಾ—ಇವರು (ಸ್ತ್ರೀಯರು) ಇದ್ದರು.
वैशम्पायन उवाच
Educational Q&A
This verse is primarily enumerative rather than didactic: it preserves names within the epic’s narrative record. Such catalogues in the Mahābhārata function to memorialize participants and lineages, underscoring the vast human scope of the war narrative.
Vaiśampāyana continues a list of named women (a catalogue within the Shalya Parva context), presenting successive proper names as part of a broader enumeration in the surrounding passage.