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.s1.440

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[The figures in brackets indicate the number in the ecliptic; Abhijit [22] is wanting.] Then gifts of ghee to learned brahmans; one becomes as accomplished (paripūrṇāṅgaḥ) as the full moon (XIII, 110).—§ 760: Yudhiṣṭhira asked, what regulates rebirth, etc. Bhīṣma directed him to ask Bṛhaspati, as none else was capable of explaining the matter. Vaiśampāyana said: While they were thus speaking Bṛhaspati came from heaven; Yudhiṣṭhira with Dhṛtarāṣṭra, etc., honoured him; then Yudhiṣṭhira asked him, what is truly the friend of mortal creatures, and what follows man to the next world. Bṛhaspati said: Righteousness. Yudhiṣṭhira asked, how righteousness can accompany the dead body. Bṛhaspati said that the soul (jīva) obtains a new body according to its merit, Yama, etc. (a), being the witnesses, etc. Deities dwelling in the body, viz. earth, etc.