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.s1.455

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Anugitā ("repetition of the Bhagavadgītā"). § 10 (Parvas.): I, 2, 354 (parva . . adhyātmavācakam, i.e. Anugitāparvan). [Anugitāparvan] ("the section containing the repetition of the Bhagavadgītā," the 94th of the minor parvas of Mhbhr.; cf. Anugitā). § 782: Janamejaya said: When Kṛṣṇa and Arjuna, after having slain their enemies, dwelt there in the palace, what conversation took place between them? Vaiçampāyana said: Arjuna, having recovered his kingdom, spent his time joyously in the company of Kṛṣṇa in that beautiful palace. There they repaired to a particular part of the palace with their friends and relatives. Arjuna asked Kṛṣṇa to repeat to him what he had taught him before the battle [i.e. Bhagavadgītā], especially as he would soon repair to Dvārakā. Kṛṣṇa is discontented because Arjuna cannot remember it; he would now, however, recite an old story upon the same topic. "There came a brahman from Svargaloka and was honoured by us; hear what he said, asked by us." The brahman said: There came a brahman Kāçyapa, possessed of penance, etc., to some other brahman, who had become conversant with all the authorities on religion, etc., crowned with ascetic success (siddham), able to move everywhere at will (kramamāṇam), knowing the science of disappearing at will, roving with invisible Siddhas and celestial musicians (? cakradharaḥ, PCR.); Kāçyapa honoured him as his guru, and the brahman spoke to him about transmigration, comparing his own example; at last he had renounced the world and attained to his present success, and should not have to return to this world, but would come to "Brāhman's eternal abode"; he promised to answer Kāçyapa's questions (XIV, 16). Kṛṣṇa said: Asked by Kāçyapa, the brahman discoursed on how Jiva casts off and then attains to a body, how Emancipation is achieved, and where acts do exist when Jiva becomes separated of body, etc.; how death is brought about; the happiness and misery of Jiva determined by acts (XIV, 17); how Jiva enters the womb; Brāhman first formed a body and then he created Pradhāna, the material cause of all embodied creatures; indifference to pleasure and pain is the supreme Seat (XIV, 18); who is said to be the science of yoga; how Jiva attains to the supreme. Then the brahman disappeared; Kṛṣṇa said: Thou (Arjuna) heardst on that occasion then to the gods; at no time is there a man in this world; hy [sic] those who are of sinful birth, the highest goal; yoga