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.s1.430.1

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Candramas (Soma, the Moon) as to how the brahmans attain to success. Cakra began to worship the brahmans, and therefore succeeded in obtaining the supremacy of the gods (XIII, 36).—§ 741: Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the comparative eligibility of brahmans for receiving presents; "one pays off the debt one owes to the gods by performing sacrifices, to P. by procreating children, to the brahmans by making presents unto them, and to the guests by feeding them" (XIII, 37).—§ 742: Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira about the disposition of women (who are said to be the root of all evil and exceedingly frail), Bhīshma told the old story of the discourse between D.-r. Nārada and the courtezan Aps. Pañcacūḍā, in ancient times, in the region of Brahmān (Brahmim, so PCR.), (XIII, 38). Yudhiṣṭhira observed that women are in possession of the illusive power of As. Cambara, etc. (a), and the political knowledge of Cukra and Bṛhaspati; "it seems to me that Bṛhaspati and other great thinkers evolved the science of politics from observation of the understanding of women" (XIII, 39).—§ 743: Bhīshma approved of what Yudhiṣṭhira had said: "There is no creature more sinful than woman; she is the illusion that Dai. Maya created, etc.; I am told that all persons of the human race in course of natural progress attain to the state of gods; this circumstance alarmed the gods; they repaired to Brahmān, who created women by au Atharvan rite; in a previous creation women were all virtuous;