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.s1.457.2

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"let the horse be loosened to-day." Asked by Yudhiṣṭhira, Vyāsa ordained that Arjuna should protect the horse; Bhīmasena the kingdom aided by Nakula; Sahadeva should attend to all the relatives invited (with the permission of Dhṛtarāṣṭra); Yudhiṣṭhira asked Arjuna to spare all hostile kings as much as possible and to invite them to the horse-sacrifice (XIV, 72). Yudhiṣṭhira was initiated by the Ṛtvijs (description); the horse was let loose. Arjuna with Gāṇḍīva followed the horse; all Hāstinapura came out wanting to behold him; a disciple of Yājñavalkya followed him in order to perform auspicious rites for him; and also many brahmans and kṣattriyas. During the horse's wanderings many great and wonderful battles were fought; the horse wandered over the whole earth; from the north it turned to the east: kings in myriads fought against Arjuna because they had lost their kinsmen on the field of Kurukṣetra, and innumerable Kirātas, Yavanas, Mlecchas, and Aryas; "I shall narrate only the principal battles" (XIV, 73). The Trigartas (the sons and grandsons of the slain) attacked Arjuna, who in vain asked them to forhear; the Trigarta king Sūryavarman & Arjuna, who slow Sūryavarman's younger brother Ketuvarman; Dhṛtavarman & Arjuna, who was wounded in his hand and let fall Gāṇḍīva, but took it up again and slow eight warriors; the Trigartas fled and accepted Arjuna's dominion (XIV, 74).