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.s1.448.3

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the flesh of the backbone, or that of animals not slain in sacrifices, is as the flesh of one's own son; one should eat in privacy; well-cooked frumeaty, yāvaka (B. yavāgam), kṛsara (C. °ça°), and havis [should be used in] the Aṣṭakās of gods and P. and [in] worshipping the planets; one should not shave without calling down a blessing upon oneself; if one snoozes, he should be blessed ("çatam jīva," Nil.) by those present; having committed a sin, one should confess it in the presence of those that are good; they would then destroy it; one should achieve righteousness in private, not make a show of righteousness; those are traders in righteousness who draw profit from it; one should lay up for oneself a treasure in the world to come, consisting in gifts maḍu [here] to deserving persons (XIII, 163). Yudhishṭhira observed that the acquisition of wealth very often seems to be independent of exertion and Icaraṇa, etc.; Bhīshma said that when one, notwithstanding great exertion, fails to earn wealth, he should practise severe austerities, make gifts, abstain from cruelty, etc.; then happiness will be obtained [in the next life]; unless seeds be sown, no crops appear; even in the case of insects and ants, their acts [of this and past lives] and Nature are the cause of happiness and woe [i.e., the explanation of what seems unintelligible to Yudhishṭhira is to be sought for in the actions in past lives] (XIII, 164); to put faith in righteousness is the mark of wisdom;