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.s1.430.3

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Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira upon what authority the wealth of men is inherited by others when they happen to have daughters, Bhīshma explained the different rules of succession, and recited some verses sung in days of yore by Yama about the man who sells his son or bestows his daughter for a dower (he has to sink into seven terrible hells named Kāla); the Ārsha marriage is also a sale; "even a human being with whom one has no relationship of blood should not form the subject of sale" (XIII, 45); a verse of [Daksha] Prācetasa; how women should be treated; "those houses that are cursed by women meet with destruction and ruin as if scorched by some Atharvan rite"; Manu, on the eve of his departure for heaven, entrusted women to the care and protection of men; a verse sung by a princess of the house of the Videha king Janaka on the duties of women (XIII, 46). Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīshma discussed the comparative eligibility of different kinds of sons to the father's inheritance, quoting *Manu* and R., and M.-r. *Kaçyapa* (B. *Kā°*) *Mārīca*; "if a brahman, led by lust, acts in a different way, he shall come to be regarded as a *Cāṇḍāla* among brahmans" (XIII, 47). Asked by *Yudhishṭhira*, *Bhīshma* discussed the duties of persons born a brahman upon a *Çūdra* wife is called *Pāraçava* (etymology); a *Kshattriya's* son with a *Çūdra* wife is called an *Ugra*, etc. (η); only the duties of the four principal castes have been laid down in the scriptures;