1 N. of a district in India.

2 N. of a king of the Matsyas. The Pāṇḍavas lived incognito in the service of this king for one year, (the thirteenth of their exile) having assumed different dis- guises. His daughter Uttarā was mar- ried to Abhimanyu and was mother of Parīkṣit who succeeded Yudhis- ṭhira to the throne of Hastināpura. Comp. jaḥ a sort of inferior diamond. parvan n. the fourth book of the...