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.s1.18

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[Verse quotation: ...upon the Indus (II, 32, 1266) conquered by Nakula (II, 32, 1267); Yudhiṣṭhira (II, 32, 1268) ... that in the ... barbarous kings (III, 188, 12840) (Mārkaṇḍeyas). The Ābhīras are mentioned by Sañjaya in the enumeration of the people of Bhāratavarṣa, VI, 9, 354, 375 (Cūdrā°) (Jambūkh.) (cf. Wilson, Viṣṇu-purāṇa, ed. by Fitzedward Hall, vol. ii, 133 f., 167 f., 184 f.). They are placed in the eyes of Droṇa's Suparnavyūha on the twelfth day of the battle, VII, 20, 798 (cūdrā°) (Saṃcaptakavadhap.). From hatred towards them the Sarasvatī disappeared at Vinaçana, IX, 37, 2119 (cūdrā°) (Baladevat.). They have become cūdras, having omitted their duties of kṣattriyas from fear of Paraçurāma, XIV, 297, 832 (Draviḍā°) (v. Arjuna Kārtavīrya). When Arjuna, after the catastrophe at Dvārakā, is conducting the wives, children, and the old men from thence to Indraprastha, the Ābhīras attack him when he has arrived at Pañcanada, and rob most of the women, XVI, 7, 223; 8, 270 (Pañca-janalayaiḥ; probably an error for Pañcanadalayaiḥ, B.) (Mausalap.).]