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.s1.190.3

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Aśvatthāman surrenders his gem, whose wearer ceases to have any fear from weapons, etc., and from D., Dā., and N., and Rā.; the weapon he throws into the wombs of the Pāṇḍava women (X, 15). Kṛṣṇa says that a brahman at Upaplavya has said to Uttarā, "while the Kuru line will become extinct, a son will be born to thee, and he will for that reason be called Parīkṣit." Aśvatthāman says that his words could not but be fulfilled. Kṛṣṇa says that the fœtus will die, but be recalled to a long life; but Aśvatthāman shall wander for 3000 years alone, and without being able to talk to anyone; the stench of pus and blood shall emanate from him, and inaccessible forests and dreary moors shall be his abode; he shall wander over the earth with the weight of all diseases on him. Parīkṣit shall learn the use of all weapons from Kṛpa and rule the earth for sixty years; Kṛṣṇa will revive him. Vyāsa approves of Kṛṣṇa's curse. Aśvatthāman proceeds to the forest. The Pāṇḍavas with Kṛṣṇa, Vyāsa, and Nārada, taking with them the gem, come to Draupadī, who is sitting in Prāya. Bhīma comforts Draupadī (η). Draupadī asks Yudhishṭhira to place upon his head the gem taken from Aśvatthāman. Yudhishṭhira asks Kṛṣṇa (X, 16) about the true cause of Aśvatthāman's success in destroying the Pāṇḍava army (θ). Kṛṣṇa ascribes it to the aid of Mahādeva, and relates that when Brahmā, desirous of creating, saw Rudra, he asked him to create living creatures;