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.s1.438
An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.438
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The result of adoring Kṛṣṇa as Puṇḍarīkākṣa, etc. (η). At the conclusion of one's vow, one should feed a number of brahmans or make gifts of ghee to them. Viṣṇu has said that there is no fast superior to that (XIII, 109). Vaiśampāyana said: Approaching Bhīṣma, who was lying on his bed of arrows, Yudhiṣṭhira asked how one does acquire beauty, etc. Bhīṣma said that a Candravrata should be commenced in Mārgaśīrṣa, when the moon comes in conjunction with Mūla: