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.s1.448.4

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Time [which is the supreme disposer of all things] can never make righteousness the cause of misery, and unrighteousness is incapable of touching righteousness, which is protected by time; righteousness is fraught with victory (XIII, 165).—§ 775: Vaiśampāyana said: Desirous of obtaining such goods as are destructive of sins, Yudhishṭhira questioned Bhīshma, who was lying on a bed of arrows. Yudhishṭhira said: What is beneficial for a person in this world? how can one be freed of all one's sins? Vaiśampāyana said: In this connection Bhīshma recited the names of the gods to Yudhishṭhira. Bhīshma said: These names of the gods and R., if recited morning, noon, and evening, become purifiers of sins; then one has never to become blind or deaf, etc., and never takes birth as an animal or in the mixed castes, nor goes to Hell; the names of the gods and R., etc., rivers, mountains, etc.; Brahmān, etc. (α); the Aps. (β); learned brahmans in the eastern region (γ), in the southern region (δ), in the western region (ε), in the north (ζ); the principal kings (η) (to be recited at sunset and sunrise) (XIII, 166).—§ 776: Janamejaya said: When Bhīshma was lying on a bed of arrows, and the Pāṇḍavas were sitting around him, my great-grandfather Yudhishṭhira heard these expositions of mysteries, etc.; what else did Yudhishṭhira do? Vaiśampāyana said: When Bhīshma became silent, all the kings became silent;