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 c5.s1.126.4

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but Indra fled in fear, desiring to take shelter in a lake, thinking that the vajra had not been hurled from his hand and that Vrtra was still alive, while the gods defeated the Dānavas, who fled to the depths of the sea. Here they conspired for the destruction of the three worlds, and resolved upon destroying all who were possessed of ascetic virtues (tapas), for so the universe would itself be destroyed, as it is supported by asceticism (III, 101). Remaining in the depths of the sea by day, the Kāleyas during the night slew the munis in the hermitages and sacred spots (punyeshvāyataneshu); in the hermitage of Vasishtha, 197 ascetics; in that of Cyavana, 100; in that of Bharadvāja, 20, without being seen; every morning people saw the dead bodies and mutilated limbs of the munis and the disturbed agnihotras scattered on the ground. Men fled for their lives into all directions or killed themselves from fear. Some brave bowmen searched in vain for the evildoers. The gods with Indra repaired to Nārāyana (c) (III, 102). They did not know by whom the brāhmanas were being killed during the night. Vishnu explained the whole affair to them, and told them to apply to Agastya (Maitrāvaruni) that he might dry up the sea, as no one else was capable of so doing.