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.s1.443.4

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One should also give a pair of sandals to a deserving brahman, and an umbrella (thereby comfortable shade is obtained in the next world). Sūrya's hair stood on end; applauding the sayings of Citragupta, he said to D. and P. that these five should always be avoided: the slayer of a brahman, the slayer of a cow, he who is addicted to sexual intercourse with other people's wives, he who is bereft of faith, and he who derives his living from the misbehaviour of his wife; such persons suffer (pacyante) in hell like worms eating pus and blood, and are avoided by P., D., Snātakas, etc. (XIII, 130). Asked by D., P., and R., the Pramathas said that men who are rendered impure by sexual intercourse without having previously purified themselves (ucchisṭaḥ), men who insult their superiors, who eat different kinds of meat, and sleep at the foot of a tree, who keeps flesh under his pillow while lying down to sleep, who places the head where his feet should be placed (in lying down or sleeping), and who throws phlegm, etc., into the water: "these men deserve to be slain and eaten up by us." Means of protection against them are: Gorocana, [the root of] vacā [so B.], ghee with akṣata, abstaining from meat, ever-burning fire, the skin or teeth of a wolf, a hill-tortoise, [the sacrificial] smoke, a cat, a tawny or black goat; those articles are destructive of Rā. (XIII, 131). Brahmān caused D. together with Indra and P.