Whose name is this? - Page 35

"Lotus-eyed" is an epithet that unites so many characters:

Nīla of Māhiṣmatī and Aśvatthāman are both Padmapatranibhekṣaṇa.

Rāma Jāmadagnya and Ajapārśva are both Rājīvalocana.

Sulabhā and Citrāṅgadā are both Kamalekṣaṇā.

Śarmiṣṭhā and Śikhaṇḍin's mother are both Rājīvalocanā.

Please continue to answer this question as thoroughly as possible.

100. Who is called "lotus-eyed" by any of these names for men or women?

Men

Puṇḍarīkākṣa

Puṣkarākṣa

Puṣkarekṣaṇa

Aravindākṣa

Rājīvalocana

Rājīvatāmrākṣa

Rājīvanetra

Kamalapatrākṣa

Kamalāyatākṣa

Kamalekṣaṇa

Kamalalocana

Kamalavibuddhalocana

Padmākṣa

Raktapadmākṣa

Padmapalāśākṣa

Phullapadmaviśālākṣa

Padmāyatākṣa

Padmāyataviśālākṣa

Padmāyatekṣaṇa

Padmanibhekṣaṇa

Padmadalekṣaṇa

Padmapatranibhekṣaṇa

Padmalocana

Padmanibhalocana

Lohitapadmanetra

Rucirapadmākṣa

Women

Rājīvalocanā

Kamalapatrākṣī

Kamalāyatākṣī

Kamalekṣaṇā

Kamalalocanā

Padmākṣī

Padmāyatākṣī

Padmadalāyatākṣī

Padmapatraviśālākṣī

Padmapalāśākṣī

Cārupadmapalāśākṣī

Phullapadmapalāśākṣī

Padmalocanā

Padmadalekṣaṇā

Padmapatranibhekṣaṇā

Āyatapadmanetrā

Śāradotpalapatrākṣī

Rucirotpalapatrākṣī

Karṇaparvan 35.57:

yasya yad dhi raṇe nyaṅgaṃ pitṛto mātṛto'pi vā

karmataḥ śīlato vā'pi sa tac chrāvayate yudhi

Whoever had whatever name on the battlefield, from his father or from his mother, from deeds or from character, he made it heard in battle.

101. Who was known as Cakṣurhan?

Originally posted by: devashree_h

One of Jarasandh's daughter is called Rajivalochana.

Yuddhisthir is called Rajivalochana by Krishna Vasudev.

Arjuna is called Rajivalochana when he is travelling towards Indra Loka with Matali.

Wives of Sagara, Vaidarbhi and Shaibya are called Kamalekshana

Yuddhisthir

Abhimanyu

Arjun

Karna

Wife of Drupad

King Viradyumna

Sudarshana, Daughter of Ikshvaku King Duryodhana

Jamdagni Ram

Rajivatamraksha

Yuddhisthir

Nice list of Rājīvalocana/Rājīvalocanā characters! Some of them have other lotus-eyed names too.

Yudhiṣṭhira's name is never spelled Yuddhiṣṭhira. Yudhi is a synonym of yuddhe, locative forms of yudh and yuddha respectively. Steady in battle = yudhi + sthiraḥ becomes Yudhiṣṭhira in spoken Saṃskṛta.

Yuddhesthira or Yuddhasthira could have been a name, but I guess it never became one because yuddha is only a noun and audiences preferred the verb-root yudh in warlike names like Duryodhana/Suyodhana instead of Duryuddha/Suyuddha, Yuyutsu instead of Yuddhepsu, Yuyudhāna instead of Yuddhaṃkara, and Yudhāmanyu instead of Yuddhenamanyu.

Yes, Arjun, Krishna, Yuddhisthir, Abhimanyu, all have been called by other lotus eyed names.

Rishyashringa calls the Courtesan's daughter, who comes to meet him, as Kamalayataksha

Kotikashya calls Kshemankara, King of Trigartha, as Kamalayataksha

Pandavas are called Kamalayataksha

Bheem is called Kamalavibuddhalochana

Originally posted by: devashree_h

Kotikashya calls Kshemankara, King of Trigartha, as Kamalayataksha

Pandavas are called Kamalayataksha

The critical edition's text for Āraṇyakaparvan 249.6 reads: Trigarta-rājaḥ kamal'āyat'ākṣi Kṣemaṃkaro nāma sa eṣa vīraḥ - he is that hero, the Trigarta king named Kṣemaṃkara, you of lotuslike long eyes!

Here, kamal'āyat'ākṣi is the vocative declension of a feminine word kamal'āyat'ākṣī, so it refers to the woman to whom Koṭikāśya is speaking, Kṛṣṇā Draupadī, not Kṣemaṃkara.

If Koṭikāśya were describing Kṣemaṃkara as lotus-eyed, he would have used the masculine word in its nominative declension kamal'āyat'ākṣaḥ.

I haven't found a place where Pāṇḍavas collectively are called Kamalāyatākṣa. Only Dharmarāja by Kṛṣṇa at Ādiparvan 180.20.

Originally posted by: BrhannadaArmour

The critical edition's text for Āraṇyakaparvan 249.6 reads: Trigarta-rājaḥ kamal'āyat'ākṣi Kṣemaṃkaro nāma sa eṣa vīraḥ - he is that hero, the Trigarta king named Kṣemaṃkara, you of lotuslike long eyes!

Here, kamal'āyat'ākṣi is the vocative declension of a feminine word kamal'āyat'ākṣī, so it refers to the woman to whom Koṭikāśya is speaking, Kṛṣṇā Draupadī, not Kṣemaṃkara.

If Koṭikāśya were describing Kṣemaṃkara as lotus-eyed, he would have used the masculine word in its nominative declension kamal'āyat'ākṣaḥ.

I haven't found a place where Pāṇḍavas collectively are called Kamalāyatākṣa. Only Dharmarāja by Kṛṣṇa at Ādiparvan 180.20.

@orange: I had a doubt about it. But Critical Edition English translation says it's for Kshemankara.

That's my bad, it's Karenumati who is called Kamalayatakshi

Do you know why Kunti was called Prutha?

Mahābhārata doesn't give a reason why her elders chose the name. Pṛthā must mean "expander," a blessing of prosperity and good repute (prathā). She had a sister named Pṛthukīrti - "expansive fame" and second-cousins-once-removed named Vipṛthu and Pṛthu.

Throughout Mahābhārata, there are plays on Pṛthā's name:

kanyā-garbhaḥ pṛthu-yaśāḥ Pṛthāyāḥ pṛthu-locanaḥ - "the child born to Pṛthā as a girl, of expansive success, of expansive eyes" (Ādiparvan 126.3)

vavande pṛthu-tāmr'ākṣī Pṛthāṃ - "the one of expansive coppery-red eyes greeted Pṛthā" (Ādiparvan 213.18)

āmantrya Pṛthāṃ ca pṛthu-locanaḥ - "the one of expansive eyes took leave of Pṛthā" (Sabhāparvan 2.2)

abravīt ... Pṛthāṃ pṛthu-yaśāḥ - "the one of expansive success said to Pṛthā" (Sabhāparvan 42.50)

Pṛthāṃ pṛthivī-samām - "Pṛthā, expansive Earth's equal" (Āraṇyakaparvan 222.39)

Pṛthā(ṃ) pṛthula-locanā(m) - "Pṛthā of expansive eyes" (Āraṇyakaparvan 287.12, Āśvamedhikaparvan 61.9, 62.22, 65.27, Strīparvan 15.14)

Pṛthāyāḥ pṛthivī-pate - "of Pṛthā, lord of the expansive earth!" (Āraṇyakaparvan 292.1)

abhyagacchanta sahitāḥ Pṛthāṃ pṛthula-vakṣasaḥ - "together the expansive-chested men approached Pṛthā" (Strīparvan 15.9)

avocat ... Pṛthā ... pṛthula-vakṣasam - "Pṛthā said to the expansive-chested man" (Śāntiparvan 1.31)

Gāndhāryāḥ ... Pṛthāyāś ca pṛthak pṛthak - "of Gāndhārī and of Pṛthā separately" (Āśramavāsikaparvan 47.18)

and ironically Pṛthā kṛśā - "Pṛthā who has become frail" (Āśramavāsikaparvan 29.5, 46.16).