[Pramāṇa](https://indike.org/pramana/) › [Studies](https://indike.org/pramana/ins) › [Reference works](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference) › [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](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904) › c5.s1.440 # 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 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.s1.440 - **Language:** English ### [c5.s1.440](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.440) \[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. - [Previous: c5.s1.439](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.439) - [Next: c5.s1.441.1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.441.1) - [Up: c5.s1](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1) --- Source: [https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.440](https://indike.org/pramana/ins.reference.sorensen-1904.c5.s1.440) · Pramāṇa