An Index to the Names in the Mahabharata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c2.11

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Ādivamçāvatāraṇa, with or without one additional inspection of the § 83, will at once show the reader who in his memory has a general idea of Mahābhārata that the quotation has been taken from a kind of preface or principal narrative of the Epos, which is placed after the sections where, not auti is the speaker. According to his critical disposition he will, or will not, this fact.