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.s1.435.4

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“Behold also this miserable dog!” In a former life the Cāṇḍāla was born in a noble family, but out of pride he ate the meat attached to the vertebral column of animals, and thence he had attained to his present state; in consequence of some meritorious act in a former life, he had retained the memory of his previous existences. Asked by the Cāṇḍāla, the kṣattriya told him (in order to obtain emancipation (mokṣa) from his state of a Cāṇḍāla) to give up his life for the sake of a brahman. This the Cāṇḍāla did in a battle for protecting a brahman’s wealth, and attained to a desirable end (XIII, 101).—§ 757: Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira whether there is a difference of position among righteous men after death, Bhīṣma related the old narrative of the conversation between the muni Gautama and Indra [i.o. Hastikūṭa] (b) (XIII, 102).—(†) § 758: Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira what constitutes the highest penance, Bhīṣma said that there is no penance superior to abstention from food, and told the old story of the conversation between king Bhagīratha and Brahmán. Bhagīratha had transcended the world of the gods, that of kine, and that of the Ṛṣis; beholding this, Brahmán asked him how he had attained to that region, where neither gods, nor G., nor men succeed in coming without having practised the severest austerities; Bhagīratha enumerated his sacrifices, his penances on the Jāhnavī (Gaṅgā), etc. (a); those on the banks of Sarayū, etc. (β), he gave away millions of kine to the brahmans.