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.s1.442.1

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§ 764: Asked by *Yudhiṣṭhira* about the behaviour of good and chaste women, *Bhīṣma* said: Once *Sumanā Kaikeyī* in *Devaloka* asked the omniscient *Caṇḍīlī* by what course of acts she had attained to heaven (description). *Caṇḍīlī* said that it was not by wearing yellow robes or barks of trees, or by shaving her head, or by means of matted hair, that she had attained to this state, but by never saying any disagreeable word to her husband; by always worshipping D., P., and brahmans; by always obeying her mother-in-law and father-in-law, etc. (enumeration). By adhering to this path of duty a woman is honoured in heaven like a second *Arundhatī*. Then *Caṇḍīlī* disappeared* (XIII, 123).—§ 765: Asked by *Yudhiṣṭhira* which is of superior efficacy, gentleness or gifts, *Bhīṣma* said that some become gratified by gentleness, others by gifts, and related the ancient narrative of how a brahman, who had been seized in a forest by a Rā., was released [on account of his gentleness], after answering the question put to him by the Rā., "Why am I pale nf hue and so lean?" [a long and very curious enumeration of causes that may render a man pale and lean]. Rā. worshipped that brahman and making him his friend and bestowing wealth upon him, let him off (XIII, 124).—§ 766: *Yudhiṣṭhira* asked about the following "mysteries": how a poor man, desirous of achieving his own good, should act; what is the best of all gifts, and what should be given under various circumstances;