Jarā
Jarā
Jarā is a name used for more than one being in the Purāṇas and Itihāsas. Each is listed below with where it is told; choose the one you are looking for.
People
- Jarā Rākshasī: the rākshasī who joined the two halves of an infant into the living child Jarāsandha, who took his name from her, and who was later killed by Balarāma. Mahābhārata, Droṇa Parva, Chapter 181; Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 9, Chapter 22; Skandha 10, Chapter 72
- Jara: the hunter whose arrow, made from the last piece of iron of the musala, struck the foot of Bhagavān Kṛshṇa at the end of his time on earth, as the ṛshis’ śāpa had foretold. Mahābhārata, Mausala Parva, Chapters 1, 4; Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 11, Chapters 30–31
Named in passing
- Jarā, daughter of Kāla: Jarā (old age), the daughter of Kāla, whom every being in the three worlds turned away, and who chose Bhaya, king of the yavanas, in Nārada‘s account of Purañjana, told on Purañjana Upākhyāna. Bhāgavata Purāṇa, Skandha 4, Chapter 27
- Jarā, wife of Karkaṭa: the wife of the Bhilla Karkaṭa, who died with him at the Gokarṇa tīrtha in Indraprastha and became a companion of Pārvatī, told on Karkaṭa and Jarā at Gokarṇa. Padma Purāṇa, Uttara Khaṇḍa, Chapter 222