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.s1.435.5

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“It is not through the merits of those acts that I have attained to this region, but through the vow of fast, which had been known to Indra, who had kept it secret, but which Bhārgava Uçanas had learnt through penance († v. 5945); all brahmans and R. gratified me, saying that I should repair to Brahmaloka.” Bhagīratha was honoured by Brahmán (XIII, 103).—§ 759: Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira, Bhīṣma discussed the reason why, a man’s period of life being said to extend over 100 years, one becomes short-lived or long-lived; one should awake at the Brahma muhūrta [i.e. at the hour when the sun is just below the horizon, PCR.]; R. by adoring the two twilights became long-lived; one should avoid atheism (nāstikyam), calumniating the Vedas, censuring tho gods, etc.; one should also wash one’s feet before sitting down to recite the Vedas or to eat any food; one should perform the homas for propitiating the gods (çāntihomān) and recite the Sāvitra mantras (Sāvitrāṇi ca dhārayet; i.e. mantraviçeṣan, Nil.); persons conversant with ancient history cite a gāthā sung by Yama in days of old (about running—prādravati, B.—or studying with uncleansed mouth); “he who studies at forbidden times, loses his Veda and shortens his life” (v. 5026-8); nor should one eat at the çrāddha of an enemy; the spots of the hand named Brāhma tīrtha, etc. (a); having drunk water thrice, etc., one should worship the P. and gods according to the ordinances of the Vedas (v. 5065);