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.s1.442.4

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that he is gratified by the worship of brahmans, with those who worship and make offerings in the circle besmeared with cow-dung (because it was with his circular disc that the Dai. were slain), those who reverence their own feet (because it was with his two feet that the world was covered); those who behold a boar that has just emerged from water and on his head carries a quantity of mud from the bank (reminding of the form of a boar in which *Viṣṇu* slew *Hiraṇyākṣa*), or a brahman that is a dwarf in stature (*Viṣṇu* having conquered king *Bali* as a dwarf), have never to meet with any evil (the explanations were given as answer to *Indra*). The man who every day worships the *aśvattha* (*Ficus religiosa*) and *gorocana* and the cow is considered to worship the whole universe with D., As., and men; "staying within such, I, in my own form, accept the worship that is offered to them; the worship of other kind I never accept." *Baladeva* points out the importance of touching a cow, ghee, etc., at early dawn. The gods point to the importance of using an *uḍumbara* vessel in presenting offerings to D. and P. *Dharma* said that the offerings in honour of D. and P. should never be given to a brahman who has accepted service under the king, or who rings the bell, etc.; from the house of a person from whom a guest returns unsatisfied, P., D., and the sacred fires all return disappointed. *Agni* declared that P.