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.s1.428.4

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Bhīshma related the old narrative of the discourse between Aṣṭāvakra and Diçā, i.e. Aṣṭāvakra-Dik-saṃvāda (b), (XIII, 19-21). — § 732: Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discoursed on the question who is worthy of receiving gifts, etc., quoting R. Mārkaṇḍeya, etc. (a), (XIII, 22). Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the ordinances regulating the actions to be perpetrated towards the deities and the Pitrs on the occasions of śrāddhas: “One should carefully perform all acts relating to the deities in the forenoon, and all acts relating to the Pitrs in the afternoon; that gift that is made untimely, etc., is appropriated by Rā.”; the brahmans that must not be invited to śrāddhas, and those that should be invited, etc.; Jātakarman, etc. (XIII, 23). Asked by Yudhishṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the circumstances under which a person may become guilty of brahmanicide without actually slaying a brahman (XIII, 24). — § 733: Asked by Yudhishṭhira about the holy places on earth, Bhīshma repeated the enumeration of them (a) made by Aṅgiras to Gautama, who put this same question, especially mentioning the result of bathing in Candrabhāgā, etc. (b), in Puṣkara, etc. (c), in Hiraṇyabindu, etc. (d), in Indratoyā, etc. (e), in Gaṅgādvāra, etc. (f), at Saptagaṅgā, etc. (g), at Kanyakūpa, etc. (h), in Devikā, etc. (i), Mahāgaṅgā, etc. (j), Vaimānika, etc. (k), in Carastamba, etc. (l), Citrakūṭa, etc. (m), Matangavāpī, etc. (n), Gaṅgāhrada, etc. (o), Gaṅgā-Yamunayos tīrtham, etc.