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.s1.458.1
An Index to the Names in the Mahābhārata, with Short Explanations and a Concordance to the Bombay and Calcutta Editions and P. C. Roy's Translation c5.s1.458.1
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on his way (XIV, 81). The horse, having wandered over the whole earth, turned its face towards Hāstinapura. At Rājagṛha, the Magadha king Meghasandhi, son of Sahadeva, attacked Arjuna, who was on foot, from his chariot; Meghasandhi was worsted, but spared and told to come to the horse-sacrifice. The horse then proceeded along the sea-coast through the country of the Vaṅgas, Puṇḍras, and Koṣalas; in these countries Arjuna vanquished innumerable Mleccha armies (XIV, 82). Arjuna proceeded towards the south. The horse came to Cuktimatī, the beautiful city of the Cedis. Carabha, the son of Cicu-pāla, fought Arjuna, and then worshipped him. Then the horse came to the Kācis, Aṅgas, Koṣalas, Kirātas, and Tārganas; then to the Dācārṇas, whose ruler Citrāṅgada was vanquished by Arjuna; then to the dominions of the Niṣāda king, the son of Ekalavya, who was vanquished after a furious battle; then towards the southern ocean, where the Draviḍas, Andhras, Māhiṣakas, and Kolvagireyas (B. Kolla°) were subjugated; then to the Surāṣṭras, Gokarṇa, Prabhāsa, and Dvāravatī, where the Yādava youths were going to heat the horse, but were forbidden by King Ugrasena, who came to Arjuna with Vasudeva. Then the horse proceeded along the coast of the western ocean to the prosperous country of the five rivers; then to the Gāndhāras, where a fierce battle ensued with the Gāndhāra king, the son of Ṣakuni (XIV, 83), who wanted to avenge the slaughter of Ṣakuni; many Gāndhāras were slain;