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.s1.443.3

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then asked Arundhatī (equal to [her husband] Vasiṣṭha, not in C.) about the mysteries of dharma [not legible] Arundhatī said that dharma should never be violated by him who is bereft of faith, full of pride, or by a brahman, or who violates the bed of a guru; recommended hospitality as better than the merit of thousands of cows in Puṣkara, etc.; the touch of cow's horns with kuça-grass, and the placing of it on his own head, acquires the merit of bathing in all the three worlds (XIII, 130). P. applauded her. Bhīṣma said that one would continually [not legible] gupta: On days of the full moon and the new moon one's acts are conveyed to the Sun; when a mortal goes into Pretaloka (the regions of the dead), Vibhāvasu (the Sun) bears witness to all his acts; especially in Jyeṣṭha-Puṣkara one should give a kapilā cow to a learned brahman, on Kaumudī [the day of full moon in the month of Kārttika]; such a man is considered to have given 100 cows with a bull, a gift which is productive of eternal merit. They that are of little understanding become afflicted with hunger and thirst in the regions of the dead, burning in pain, and there is no escape for them (they who make gifts of water, on the other hand, drink of a large river full of excellent water), and have to enter into a thick darkness (but Soma, Sūrya, and Agni always give light to him who has given lamps in this world, and he blazes forth like a second Sūrya).